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communities created some new sections of the organization, as in the case of Beninese community of Chicago, whose basic functions are to establish social and cultural events, such as monthly parties and an annual celebration of the Day Independence on August 1. Other Beninese organization is The Association of Beninese of Illinois, a non-profit organization established in 2008 and whose objective is to meet the needs of Benineses in Illinois, especially in Chicago and surrounding areas. The organization also tries to establish a good relationship between the Americans and the Benineses of that state.
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Others Beninese associations in United States are: the Union des Béninois des États-Unis pour le Développement ("Unión de benineses en USA for the development"), the Association des Béninois de la Caroline du Nord, USA (Association of Benineses of North Carolina) and the Association Béninois Indiana
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It aims to help socially, culturally and economically (to poorest members) to the U.S. Beninese population. The organization has a National General Assembly and the Executive Board to meet each other and organize cultural activities in the capital of the United States. Over time, some U.S. Beninese
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groups, small cooperatives whose purpose is to raise money, through verbal agreement among their members. In the tontine, its members must contribute a fixed amount of money regularly. Thus, these cooperatives allow U.S. Beninese simultaneously collect an amount of money. The Beninese Americans are
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Most Beninese who migrate to the United States do so seeking better educational and employment opportunities. Now, many U.S. Beninese immigrants work more than 80 hours a week with the aim, in addition of earning enough money to survive, of helping their relatives who want to emigrate to the United
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As in New York, many Beninese women also worked in hairbraiding elsewhere in the United States. In the late 1990s many other Beninese people from Benin and Europe immigrated to United States in one second wave, pursuing also better working conditions and study, well as a graduate education.
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Indeed, Dahomey was one of the main proslavery Kingdoms of West Africa during the colonial period of the Americas and the nineteenth century, arriving to his maximum economic splendor to late of the eighteenth century thanks to its slave trade with the European traders of many areas of the
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descent. According to the census of 2000, in the United States there are only 605 Americans of Beninese origin. However, because since the first half of the eighteenth century to nineteenth many slaves were exported from Benin to the present United States, the number of
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The Beninese community regularly interact with other communities from West Africa, with which they have cultural ties, such as the Malian, Ivorian, Senegalese or Togolese. In some cities, many Benineses participate in
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Benin's slaves brought voodoo to Louisiana, followed then by Haitian migrants that arrived to the state in the late nineteenth century. Their knowledge of herbs, poisons, and the ritual creation of
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where the presence of slaves from modern-day Benin was more notable. Indeed, between 1719 and 1731, most of the slaves who came to Louisiana came directly from Benin, through of boats as
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The first people from present-day Benin to came to the modern United States were slaves and arrived to this country in the colonial period. Most of the slaves of
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Like other ethnic groups in United States, people of Beninese origin formed organizations and associations to help to other Benineses people in United States.
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also the founders of African Hairbraiding Association of Illinois in 2001, to achieve another form of licensing pressing to state for them.
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exported to present United States exceeded 6,000 people, although this might consist not only in Benin, but also washes the shores of
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Several African ethnic groups are dispersed throughout different areas of Africa, regardless of countries or regions.
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The slaves brought with them their cultural practices, languages, and religious beliefs rooted in spirit and
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During the twentieth century, most of the Beninese people migrating to foreign countries were headed to
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The Benineses in United States have also the University of Benin Alumni Association, North America, in
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subgroup, although they were slavered mainly by Spanish settlers, when the Louisiana was Spanish) –
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Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century
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and other big cities. They promoted the emigration of relatives and friends to these cities.
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with one or more Beninese ancestors could be much higher. The number of slaves from
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In 1984 was funded The Association of Beninese Nationals in the U.S.A. (ARBEUA) in
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Google books: Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color
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Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving "Port", 1727-1892
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Zora Neale Hurston, "Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver",
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Race and ethnicity in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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ethnic group, but many slaves also were of ethnic groups such as
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Currently, there Beninese communities in cities such as
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However, in the 1980s, some Beninese began migrating to
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Births of U.S. states and territories by race/ethnicity
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Union des Béninois des États-Unis pour le Développement
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Louisiana State University Press. p. 58. 571: 569: 127:Practitioners of Beninese traditional religion 2564: 1212: 857: 733: 731: 729: 727: 291:case, which took from 110 to 160 slaves from 8: 22: 1228:Ancestry and ethnicity in the United States 620: 618: 4843:West African diaspora in the United States 2865: 2571: 2557: 2549: 1219: 1205: 1197: 928: 864: 850: 842: 21: 766:"The Association of Beninese of Illinois" 347:, from where were brought to the port of 873:African immigration to the United States 260:that hailed from Benin were imported to 4768:People of the United States / Americans 3017:Southeast Africans in the United States 2975:African immigrants to the United States 809:Communiqué Association Béninois Indiana 565: 536: 4838:Beninese diaspora in the United States 3044:Southern Africans in the United States 2886:Afro-Caribbean / West Indian Americans 645: 643: 641: 315:. The slaves belonged, mainly, to the 16:Americans of Beninese birth or descent 2980:Central Africans in the United States 7: 2951:Trinidadian and Tobagonian Americans 40:Regions with significant populations 4833:American people of Beninese descent 4020:White Hispanic and Latino Americans 3243:Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans 3176:North Africans in the United States 2963:Black Hispanic and Latino Americans 299:in 1859. 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Wrote by Tracy Steffes. 463: 4763: 4755:Punjabi Mexican Americans 3879:Liechtensteiner Americans 2586: 2329:Black Hispanic and Latino 1187: 520:Beninese people in France 149:Other American groups of 140: 111: 88: 44: 32: 4778:Native American ancestry 3553:Hungarian Slovak Gypsies 3409:Indo-Caribbean Americans 3131:Sierra Leonean Americans 3081:Bissau-Guinean Americans 3027:South Sudanese Americans 2280:Dominican (Commonwealth) 694:Journal of Negro History 525:Beninese people in Italy 4740:Louisiana Creole people 3889:Luxembourgish Americans 3059:South African Americans 2995:Equatoguinean Americans 2374:Stateside Puerto Ricans 670:. Wrote by Sybil Kein. 240:and in other states as 4527:Puerto Rican Americans 3086:Cape Verdean Americans 2941:Saint Lucian Americans 2717:Ethnocultural politics 2685:Racial achievement gap 2615:Educational attainment 460:Cultural contributions 284:(where was famous the 4624:New Zealand Americans 4589:Micronesian Americans 4584:Marshallese Americans 4485:Costa Rican Americans 3944:Sammarinese Americans 3914:Montenegrin Americans 3644:Azerbaijani Americans 3607:Palestinian Americans 3529:Singaporean Americans 3377:Bangladeshi Americans 2985:Cameroonian Americans 2707:Unemployment by state 2260:Antiguan and Barbudan 2255:West Indian/Caribbean 1139:African ethnic groups 755:. Posted by Jon Grae. 651:Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo 515:Clotilda (slave ship) 510:Hannibal (slave ship) 445:Westchester, New York 136:Related ethnic groups 4697:Venezuelan Americans 4687:Surinamese Americans 4677:Paraguayan Americans 4667:Ecuadorian Americans 4619:Australian Americans 4510:Salvadoran Americans 4505:Panamanian Americans 4500:Nicaraguan Americans 4490:Guatemalan Americans 3929:Portuguese Americans 3894:Macedonian Americans 3884:Lithuanian Americans 3721:Belarusian Americans 3539:Vietnamese Americans 3509:Indonesian Americans 3463:Sri Lankan Americans 3329:Fuzhounese Americans 3126:Senegalese Americans 3064:Zimbabwean Americans 2956:Vincentian Americans 2344:Dominican (Republic) 2300:Kittian and Nevisian 1142:in the United States 579:. 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