Africans
of different nationalities, Brazil, 1834.
Both lithographs from Jean-Baptiste Dubret, Voyages Pittoresque
et Historique au Bresil, Rio de Janeiro.
1965 facsimile of 1834 original.
Migrants from the continent of Africa come from diverse ethnic, religious and national backgrounds. Representing more than a thousand ethnic groups, they spoke more than a thousand languages. African Americans are descended from the mixtures of these diverse African groups, whites of Europeans descent, and native Americans throughout the hemisphere.