Monarchies in the Americas The royalists went to the polls divided, with the press indicating there were actually two princes aspiring to the Brazilian throne (Dom Luiz de Orleans e Bragança and Dom João Henrique); this created some confusion among the voters. The entire island of Hispaniola was first claimed on 5 December 1492, by Christopher Columbus, for Queen Isabella, and the first Viceroy of the Americas was established along with a number of colonies throughout the Island. With the later discovery of Mexico and Peru many of the early settlers left for the main land, but some twelve cities and a hundred thousand
African diaspora in the Americas African diaspora in the Americas The African diaspora in the Americas refers to the people born in the Americas with predominantly African ancestry. Most are descendants of people enslaved and transferred from Africa to the Americas by Europeans, to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. At present, they constitute about 14% of the population of the Americas, with the largest concentrations by percentage of population in Saint Kitts and Nevis (92.5%), Haiti (92%), Jamaica (91%), The Bahamas (90.6%), Barbados (90%), Turks and Caicos (90%), Antigua and Barbuda (90%), Dominica (87%), Saint