Mixed Race History

The history of mixed-race individuals is one that has been overlooked and underrepresented for centuries. Some have constructed research regarding this topic, yet Mixed-Race people seem to fall between the cracks of the over-discussed and typical themes in history—such as slavery, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and the creation of the United States Constitution. Many know of the enslavement of African American’s in Jamestown, Virginia along with knowing the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade began in the 15th century, and that the United States Constitution was written during the Constitutional Convention and signed September 17th, 1787. It is for one to understand though, that Mixed-Race people are not a new discovery or concept. They did not just
This coming together of these two groups sparked due to their mixed-race children. A bi-racial or tri-racial child gave his or her family an advantage when foods and common goods were to be traded. Mixed race people were able to trade with people of both racial groups, resulting in them receiving better goods to live on. The same went for Europeans and Africans intermixing with one another. Madagascar, located on the coast of Africa, served as the trading hub (or center) for many families. A child who was part African and part European got the chance to decide with what people their family would benefit the most from trading
Against their will, the Africans were taken to a colony (North America) in Jamestown, Virginia and forced to work growing tobacco crops. This process continued throughout both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, equating to the African slaves being the constructors of the nation’s economy. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Occidental and Oriental trades on the African population also contributed to the expansion of the African (slave trade). This trading, along with others played a large role in the intermixing of different people, one can see how the continuous production of bi-racial and tri-racial children propelled into the New World.
After two periods of race mixing in the Ancient World and Old World, New World Mixing sprouted in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. By this time, ethnic complexity was noticeable and intermixing between these three continents continued. Post Old World Mixing, many common themes in history, such as the Transatlantic Slave Trade, include people of mixed