The initiative drew an estimated 1,500 African Americans, including notable figures such as Tina Knowles-Lawson (Beyoncé’s mother), Boris Kodjoe and his wife Nicole Ari Parker, Steve Harvey ...
They would then travel further over land, to South American gold mines operated by European colonizers. As a scholar of African history ... From the 1500s to the 1800s around 12 million Africans ...