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Afro-Caribbean is the shorten ethnicity term of African-Caribbean which refers to the ethnicity & cultural heritage of Caribbean people whose ancestors were taken from Africa via the trans-atlantic slave trade to the caribbean Islands between the 15th & 19th century to work primarily on various sugar plantations and in domestic households. Other names for the ethnic group include, Black Caribbean, Black West Indian, Afro-Antillean or Afro-West Indian. The term was not used by West Indians themselves but was first coined by Americans in the late 1960s. , People of Afro-Caribbean descent today mainly have between 85-95% african ancestry DNA with their remaining of non-African ancestry DNA, such as European, South Asian, Middle Eastern and Amerindian, as there has been extensive intermarriage and unions among the peoples over the centuries. Although most Afro-Caribbean people today live in French, English and Spanish-speaking Caribbean nations, there are also significant diaspora populations throughout the Western world – especially in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands. Both the home and diaspora populations have produced a number of individuals who have had a notable influence on modern Western, Caribbean, and African societies; they include political activists such as Marcus Garvey and C. L. R. James; writers and theorists such as Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon; US military leader and statesman Colin Powell, whose parents were immigrants and Jamaican musician Bob Marley.
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