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Cameroonian American are Americans of Cameroonian descent. According to the census of 2010, in the United States there 16,894 Americans of Cameroonian origin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2010 )〕 Many people from present-day Cameroon arrived in the United States as slaves during the antebellum period. Consequently, many African Americans today have discovered through DNA analysis that they are mainly or at least partly descended from Cameroonian slaves.〔〔 The American DNA Company discovered that many of the 6,000 African Americans whose DNA they analyzed had at least one ancestor from current-day Cameroon.〔 In addition, according to the 2007-2011 American Community Survey there are 33,181 Cameroonian-born people living in United States.〔 ==History== The first peoples from the modern Cameroon who immigrated to the United States, came as slaves to the British colonies during the colonial period, as suggest DNA testing.〔(African Americans Reclaim Their Ancestral Heritage in Cameroon ). Wrote by Robert Morrissey.〕 So, the first documented slave - probably - originating from modern Cameroon and imported to the colonial United States for serving as slave for life was John Punch, who arrived to Virginia in 1640. This slave also is considered, by some genealogists and historians, like "the first African documented to be enslaved for life in what would eventually become the United States."〔(Anastasia Harman, Natalie D. Cottrill, Paul C. Reed, and Joseph Shumway, "Documenting President Barack Obama’s Maternal African-American Ancestry: Tracing His Mother’s Bunch Ancestry to the First Slave in America" ), Ancestry.com, 16 July 2012, p. 19.〕 According DNA testing recorded, the ethnicities of the Cameroon´s slaves in modern United States were such as Tikar, Ewondo, Babungo, Bamileke, Bamum, Masa, Mafa, Udemes, Kotoko, Fulani and Hausa from Cameroon (many Hausa also came from other places such as Nigeria).〔 In what refers to the whole of the Americas, the majority of slaves sold to the Europeans merchants from the Cameroon coast came from the inland from place (where they were captured by other ethnic groups, through of some invasions in these zones, and sold to the Europeans) and from the neighboring Batagan, Bassa, and Bulu. So, most of the slaves carried out of the River and from Bimbia in these years were from Tikari, Douala〔(Global bush tratour: Cameroon Slave trade Route )〕-Bimbia,〔(African Americans travel to Cameroon to discover their origins ). Posted by Sam Mbale on 7 Jan 2011 06:14.〕 Banyangi and Bakossi. Most them were Bamileke (who accounted for 62 percent of the people). The predominant slave-trading middlemen in modern Cameroon was Douala, but most of the slaves of modern Cameroon who were delivered to Europeans, regardless of the specific origin of them, were sold to the Fernando Po collection center, from where the European merchans took them to the Americas.〔 Most of the slaves of Bight of Biafra - many of them hailed from the itself Cameroon - arrived to modern United States were imported to Virginia (which had the 60% of the slaves of that region imported to current United States, as well most of all slaves of Virginia) and South Carolina (arriving there the 34% of the Biafra´s slaves), surpassing in together the 30,000 slaves hailing from the Bight. This colonies were followed mainly by Maryland (where arrived the 4% of the Biafra´s slaves imported to United States, arriving more of 1,000 people of the Bight). Normally, the slaves from current Cameroon were bought cheap because these slaves preferred to die rather than accept slavery.〔(Histoire du Cameroun: aux origines... ) (in French: History of Cameroon. The origins...)〕 The first Cameroonians that voluntarily arrived in the United States immigrated to this country in the 1960s, pursuing educational opportunities, opportunities of which lacking in your country. During the 1990s many other Cameroonians immigrated to the United States as political refugees, fleeing the political turmoil in his country, who rebelled against the multiparty system born. Thus, to avoid imprisonment, torture and political repression, which were patents in those moments in Cameroon, many citizens decided to emigrate abroad, addressing a part of them to the United States. Most of Cameroonian immigrants arrived in the United States were licensed, since they were most Cameroonians who obtained visas - it is easier to obtain visas to licensed, more than any other group in Cameroon - and many of them criticized the government, being more vulnerable to political repression. Thus, the majority of Cameroonians who settled permanently in the United States were doctors, engineers, nurses, pharmacists, and computer programmers. Although there are also many Cameroonians who work in blue collar workers.〔(Encyclopedia of Chicago: Cameroonian ). Wrote by Robert Morrissey.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cameroonian Americans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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