Africa–United States relations

Africa–United States relations are the political, economic and cultural ties between the United States and the independent African countries.

History

Before World War II, the United States dealt directly only with the former American colony of Liberia, the independent nation of Ethiopia,the independent state of Regency Of Algiers, French Morocco and the semi-independent nation of Egypt.

Angola

The enslaved people of Angola were captured by the Dutch and Portuguese traders which transported to tens of thousands of African slaves especially the descent of Mestiço that became a vast majority of Luso-Africans that lived in Portuguese Africa were taken from the port city of São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda to the colony of New Amsterdam by the Dutch East India Company, later renaming the city of New York which became part of the British America. With the slave ships docked in Manhattan were many enslaved people were bought and sold in auctions by the colonists, while the other slaves were brought to work on sugar and coffee plantations in the area surrounding Cap-Français (now Cap-Haïtien), which was a major port and center of the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue (later known as Haiti). The city of Rio de Janeiro once founded by Estácio de Sá became an important colony for the Portuguese after it was discovered by the navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral as the primary port for the forced migration of enslaved Africans to Brazil with a direct route for the transatlantic slave trade was established between the Portuguese colony of Rio de Janeiro and Luanda. Rio de Janeiro is home to the largest Portuguese population outside of Lisbon and for the settlers from Angola. The Seven Years' War as well as the French and Indian War had led so many campaigns in the Caribbean and in New France which led the French defeat more devastating. Following the American Revolution which led the surrender of Yorktown and the Evacuation of New York, some colonists of the newly independent young United States wanted to join the British which left New York City for British-controlled Canada as the United Empire Loyalists which then became part of British North America. The French Revolution had begun with the Storming of the Bastille, which was later followed by the September Massacres, the establishment of the French Republic, the Execution of Louis XVI and Robespierre's Reign of Terror. In Saint Domingue, the black leaders such as Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe had defeated the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte during the Haitian Revolution with Napoleon selling Louisiana, once part of Spain and France to the United States as part of Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Jefferson during his presidency.