African Americans in North Carolina

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, 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

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 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

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

Abraham Galloway

• 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

• North Carolina portal

• 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