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Gambian Americans are Americans of Gambian descent. Only 3,035 Americans reported Gambian ancestry in the 2000 census. However, like happened with most of present coast countries of West Africa (and of some countries of Central Africa), many slaves of present Gambia were imported as slaves to the present United States, by which the number de African Americans with some Gambian ancestor must be more higher. Gambian immigrants are of ethnics such as the Mandinka. Gambian communities live in places such as Chicago〔 and Washington, DC.〔(The Gambian American Association (GAA) ).〕 Most Gambians living in the United States are Muslim and Christians.〔 == History == The first immigrants from Gambia arrived to the modern United States as slaves in the colonial period of this country. In 1588, the claimant to the Portuguese throne, António, Prior of Crato, sold exclusive trade rights on the Gambia River to English merchants (including the slave trade). Letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I confirmed the grant. So, the Gambia, since the sixteenth to nineteenth century, was an important slave port in Senegambia area (along with others as Saint Louis, the Goree Island, Bissau or Cachau), both for the United States and Latin America (Spanish bought many slaves to the English, French and Portuguese merchants). Therefore an important part of the slaves were, among others, of this part of Africa.〔(De Senegal a Talcahuano: los esclavos de un alzamiento en la costa pacífica (1804) ). - (in Spanish: From Senegal to Talcahuano: an uprising of slaves on the Pacific coast (1804)).〕 Slaves from present-day Gambia imported to the modern USA belonged to ethnics such as the Mandinka and Bambara people. So many slaves of present-day Gambia were Muslims. On the other hand, it should be noted also that slaves from Senegambia staged some prominent revolts in the current United States. Thus, in 1765, while the brigantine Hope was bringing slaves from the coast of Senegal and Gambia to Connecticut, the slaves provoked a revolt aboard of the brigantine, leveraging the murder of the captain (who had beaten several of his crewmen) for some crewmens. In the revolt, the slaves killed one crew member and wounded several others. On this day their revolt was suppressed by killing seven of them.〔 Most of slaves from Gambia were imported to South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland (where, according some historians them were most of all slaves, although according others, the most of them were Igbo of Nigeria) and Georgia. Senegambian and Guinean slaves were imported to those states probably because those slaves could favor the rice plantations of those places already that they were familiar with rice plantations which was commonly grown in Senegambia and Guinea.〔(Uncovering African Roots. DNA Tests, New Technology Reveal African Heritage ). Retrieved September 8, 2012, to 16:45 om.〕 In the rest of the states having Gambian slaves (such as New York or Pennsylvania), they were very scarce (only hundreds of individuals from Senegambia were imported there). While we do know that all slaves exported to New Jersey (only 176 slaves) and all Senegambian slaves which were exported to Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania were from the Gambia. So well, like most of the slaves of Senegambia arrived in Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia and South Carolina. So, famous is the case of the slave, supposedly native from present Gambia, Kunta Kinte (who arrived to modern United States in the Lord Ligonier ship), thank to a story written by Alex Haley and based, partially, on a true story."〔Alex Haley, "Black history, oral history, and genealogy", pp. 9-19, at p. 18.〕 The Gambians have emigrated to the United States of voluntary form, as a minimum, since the 1970s. Many of them migrated to Chicago. Many Gambians have emigrated to the United States with the goal of entering higher education to which they have no access to your country. Also many of this students returned home after completing his studies, excelling in politics and business. Many Gambians who have set the United States as a permanent residence, have attracted friends and other family members to country. Gambians of United States exert jobs such as accounting, education, medicine and the hotel management.〔(Encyclopedia of Chicago: Gambians ). Posted by Tracy Steffes.〕 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「Gambian Americans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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