Ummmmm black Americans are absolutely immigrants in the context hes speaking on. Wtf is wrong with some of y’all. Black slaves were immigrants.
Most of the enslaved Africans who were sold in mainland North America arrived before 1776. The post 1776 arrivals were not separated from earlier arrivals. For this reason, by the 20th century, basically all AAs were descended from Africans who were already in what would become the United States before the revolutionary war.
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The one segment of the American population with the longest record of historical settlement are African Americans. Almost all African Americans are the descendants of seventeenth- or eighteenth-century arrivals.
The Impact of Immigration on American Society: Looking Backward to the Future
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(Half joking)