Why are there black people in the Caribbean/South America?

Carib from Grenada here!!! Black Americans are the most visible minority of total blacks in the new world. The slave trade was GLOBAL and many nations took part. read more

Stories of slave uprisings in South America and the Caribbean (in Haiti, slaves overthrew their white rulers and took back their country) had slave-owners in the Southern states of the USA terrified and paranoid that the same could happen there. read more

The term Afro-Latin American refers specifically to people of African ancestry and not to European ancestry, such as Sub-Alpine European white. The term is not widely used in Latin America outside academic circles. Normally Afro-Latin Americans are called "black" (Spanish: negro; Portuguese: negro or preto; French: nègre or noir). read more