African Americans in North Carolina explained

Group:	African Americans in North Carolina
Total:	2,415,824
Total Year:	2017
Total Ref:	^[1]
Languages:	Southern American English, African-American Vernacular English, Gullah, African languages
Regions:	Charlotte, Durham, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Raleigh
Religions:	Black Protestant^[2]
Related Groups:	African Americans, White Americans in North Carolina, Barbadian Americans, West Indian Americans, Barbadians

African-American North Carolinians or Black North Carolinians are residents of the state of North Carolina who are of African ancestry. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, African Americans were 22% of the state's population.^[3] African enslaved people were brought to North Carolina during the slave trade.^[4]

History

See main article: History of slavery in North Carolina.

Slavery has been part of North Carolina's history since its colonization by white Europeans in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Many of the first black enslaved people in North Carolina were brought to the colony from the West Indies, but a significant number were brought from Africa. Records were BURNED of the tribes and homelands of African enslaved people in North Carolina.^[5]

African Americans in North Carolina suffered from racial segregation. Most white people in North Carolina sought to refine the Jim Crow system and retain systematic segregation.^[6]

List of historic communities

Western North Carolina

• Rock Hill, Asheville, North Carolina^[7]
• Petersburg, Asheville, North Carolina
• Brooklyn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Old Shiloh, Asheville, North Carolina^{[8] [9]}
• [New] Shiloh, Asheville, North Carolina^[10]
• Lincoln Park, Burnsville, North Carolina^[11]

People

• John Chavis
• Abraham Galloway
• George Moses Horton, an enslaved poet, North Carolina's first known author of literature
• Elizabeth Keckley
• George White

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• DaBaby
• J Cole

See also

• African Americans in South Carolina
• African Americans in Tennessee
• African Americans in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Atlantic Creole
• Bristol slave trade
• Coastwise slave trade
• Colonial South and the Chesapeake
• Great Dismal Swamp maroons
• Gullah
• History of slavery in North Carolina
• Scramble (slave auction)
• Seasoning (colonialism)
• Slavery in the colonial history of the United States
• Tobacco colonies
• Demographics of North Carolina
• List of African-American historic places in North Carolina
• List of African-American newspapers in North Carolina
• Black Southerners
• History of North Carolina

External links

• A brief history of slavery in North Carolina
• Slavery
• African Presence in North Carolina
• African American History Across North Carolina
• A History of African Americans in North Carolina
• 1898 and White Supremacy
• Web site: History of African Americans in North Carolina . University of North Carolina Press . 17 August 2022 . 9 December 2023.
• Web site: Sharpe . Cynthia . Beyond The Beach: African-American History in Coastal Carolina . Coastwatch . 7 February 2022 . 9 December 2023.
• Web site: Civil Rights Movement . North Carolina History Project . 16 March 2016 . 9 December 2023.
• Web site: Native American Tribes, Colonel History & the Wright Brothers . history.com. 9 November 2009 . 9 December 2023.

Notes and References

1. Web site: North Carolina. blackdemographics.com.
2. Web site: Religious Landscape Study .
3. Web site: North Carolina QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau . Quickfacts.census.gov . 2011 . January 21, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140119192023/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37000.html . January 19, 2014 .
4. Web site: NCpedia | NCpedia .
5. Web site: NCpedia | NCpedia.
6. Web site: African Americans - Part 4: Segregation | NCpedia .
7. Web site: History. Shiloh Community Association. en-US. 2018-08-05.
8. Web site: History. Shiloh Community Association. en-US. 2018-08-05.
9. Web site: More Than Biltmore endeavors. endeavors.unc.edu. en. 2018-08-05.
10. Web site: History of Cemetery. South Asheville Cemetery Association. en-US. 2018-08-05.
11. Web site: History. Traditional Voices Group. en-US. 2023-11-18.
12. https://www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2018/02/05/black-history-month-–-north-carolinians-remember Black History Month – North Carolinians to Remember