Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

During the Age of Enlightenment, anything was thought possible, and for African Americans ... of the embarrassment of assimilating its black population as free men. After the invention of the ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... Each year 3,500 black captives arrived from Africa or the Caribbean. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 ...