Afro-American peoples of the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas who have African ancestors. Most are descendants of people enslaved and transferred from the Sub-Saharan Africa (the vast majority of the Gulf of Guinea) to America by the Europeans to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations as slaves, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. At present, they constitute about 18% of the population of the American continent with the largest concentrations by percentage of population are in Haiti (97%), Jamaica (91%), Barbados (90%), Turks and Caicos (90%), Dominica (87%), The Bahamas (85%), Dominican Republic (84%),[4] Saint Lucia (83%), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (66%), Trinidad and Tobago (58%), Bermuda (55%), Brazil (51%), Cuba (50%), Puerto Rico (46%), Belize (35%), Colombia (27%), Panama (21%), United States (16%)[1], Uruguay (6%),[5][6] Venezuela (3,5%).[7]
