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There may have been African Americans or at least some of African heritage in Georgia of eastern Europe during that time period[1] and a little later[2].

[1]- https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/black-prese...

[2]- https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/black-skin-red-land-a...

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Right, but I would bet that even today African Americans make up a very small miniority of people of African heritage in the country of Georgia and African Americans were certainly not numerous enough there in the 1890s to have their own newspapers.

This is not wrong if you consider Abkhazia part of Georgia. There are definitely recorded African descent families speaking Abkhaz and pictured in Abkhaz clothing. You are being unfairly downvoted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazians_of_African_descen...

Are they American ex-patriots?

I've noticed that in desperately searching for the polite term to refer to local black people, a lot of Europeans and Asians accidentally and humorously land on "African-American."

No but their going to America was not out of the realm of possibility if they had Russian documents. I’m just saying it’s not as facially impossible as it sounds

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