African Americans in North Carolina

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An African American church in North Carolina.

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African-American 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.^[1]

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Slavery has been part of North Carolina's history since its settlement by white Europeans in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Many of the first black slaves in North Carolina were brought to the colony from the West Indies or but a significant number were brought from Africa. Records were not kept of the tribes and homelands of African slaves in North Carolina.^[2]

List of historic communities[]

Western North Carolina:

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People[]

Abraham Galloway

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• John Chavis
• Abraham Galloway
• Elizabeth Keckley
• George White

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See also[]

• 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

External links[]

• A brief history of slavery in North Carolina
• https://www.ncpedia.org/slavery

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