BREAKING NEWS
Cloud Server Hosting For Online Businesses
Inexpensive SEO Services
Benefits of Wanting to play Free Online Slot machines
African Americans in North Carolina

Summary

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]

African Americans in North Carolina
Total population
2,415,824[1] (2017)
Regions with significant populations
Charlotte, Durham, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Raleigh
Languages
Southern American English, African-American Vernacular English, Gullah, African languages
Religion
Black Protestant[2]
Related ethnic groups
African Americans, White Americans in North Carolina, Barbadian Americans, West Indian Americans, Barbadians
A black tenant farmer topping tobacco in North Carolina
An African American church in North Carolina.
African Americans at the Exterior of North Carolina State Fairgrounds on Opening Day
African American children in North Carolina

History edit

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 not kept 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 edit

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 edit

 
Abraham Galloway

[12]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "North Carolina". blackdemographics.com.
  2. ^ "Religious Landscape Study".
  3. ^ "North Carolina QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". Quickfacts.census.gov. 2011. Archived from the original on January 19, 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  4. ^ "NCpedia | NCpedia".
  5. ^ "NCpedia | NCpedia".
  6. ^ "African Americans - Part 4: Segregation | NCpedia".
  7. ^ "History". Shiloh Community Association. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
  8. ^ "History". Shiloh Community Association. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
  9. ^ "More Than Biltmore | endeavors". endeavors.unc.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
  10. ^ "History of Cemetery". South Asheville Cemetery Association. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
  11. ^ "History". Traditional Voices Group. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
  12. ^ Black History Month – North Carolinians to Remember

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to African Americans in North Carolina.
  • 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
  • "History of African Americans in North Carolina". University of North Carolina Press. 17 August 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  • Sharpe, Cynthia (7 February 2022). "Beyond The Beach: African-American History in Coastal Carolina". Coastwatch. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  • "Civil Rights Movement". North Carolina History Project. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  • "Native American Tribes, Colonel History & the Wright Brothers". history.com. 9 November 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2023.