The making of Black Americans!
All of the people on those slave ships leaving Africa in the 15 century were Africans excluding the crew. There were no Black Americans on any of those slave ships.
When the Africans got to this continent the early White English settlers bought these Africans slave with real English money, pounds and shillings from the slave traders. The slave masters bred himself with the first wave of Africans and continued to breed him there after with each generation of off-springs for 300 years until President Lincoln stop it by the Civil War that ended in 1865. By this time a new race of people was in existence know today as Black Americans. Black Americans came into existence on this North American continent. There are no records in Africa that Black Americans existed in African. The Atlantic Ocean and plantation slavery separates Black Americans from African people.
Black Americans are descendents of plantation slaves and the biologic children of the slave masters as well and a new race of people.
Well I have to disagree with you for a principled reason, our one binding characteristic is the beautiful color of our skin!! And for 400 years plus we have been persecuted because of it. Not much different from the plight of our native family. We should seek to find what makes us a nation than pointless arguments about us not really being African. Whites did not create a new race by raping slaves, they infected the same race but deep beneath the mulatto, the new religions, the funky language, the American problems lies the soul of who we are and a knowledge of self.