This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans. African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various Americas|indigenous Americans peoples with minor additional ancestry from Europe and West African and Central African and other regions of Africa. As an ethnic group, African Americans have a small amount of african ancestry due to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade when only 388,00 slave were brought to North America. Those Africans were mixed with the major population of Americas|indigenous Americans who also were enslaved in America and developed a new and distinct cultural identity during their time in the Americas.