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African Americans in North Carolina

{{Short description|Largest minority in North Carolina}}

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| total = 2,415,824

| total_year = 2017

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| total_ref = {{cite web|url= https://blackdemographics.com/states/north-carolina/amp/|title=North Carolina|website=blackdemographics.com}}

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| languages = Southern American English, African-American Vernacular English, Gullah, African languages

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| regions = Charlotte, Durham, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Raleigh

| religions = Black Protestant{{cite web | url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/state/north-carolina/racial-and-ethnic-composition/black/ | title=Religious Landscape Study }}

| related_groups = African Americans, Barbadian Americans, West Indian Americans, Barbadians

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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.{{cite web|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37000.html |title=North Carolina QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau |publisher=Quickfacts.census.gov |year=2011 |access-date=January 21, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119192023/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37000.html |archive-date=January 19, 2014 }} African enslaved people were brought to North Carolina during the slave trade.{{cite web | url=https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/growth-slavery-north | title=NCpedia | NCpedia }}

History

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/growth-slavery-north|title = NCpedia | NCpedia}}

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.{{cite web | url=https://www.ncpedia.org/african-americans/segregation | title=African Americans - Part 4: Segregation | NCpedia }}

List of historic communities

Western North Carolina:

People

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[https://www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2018/02/05/black-history-month-–-north-carolinians-remember Black History Month – North Carolinians to Remember]

See also

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References

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External links

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  • [http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/history/collection/RAS A brief history of slavery in North Carolina]
  • [https://www.ncpedia.org/slavery Slavery]
  • [https://www.middlepassageproject.org/2020/06/03/african-presence-in-north-carolina/ African Presence in North Carolina]
  • [https://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/roundup.html African American History Across North Carolina]
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=KlyapwAACAAJ A History of African Americans in North Carolina]
  • [https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/1898-and-white-supremacy 1898 and White Supremacy]
  • {{cite web | title=History of African Americans in North Carolina | website=University of North Carolina Press | date=17 August 2022 | url=https://uncpress.org/book/9780865263512/history-of-african-americans-in-north-carolina/ | access-date=9 December 2023}}
  • {{cite web | last=Sharpe | first=Cynthia | title=Beyond The Beach: African-American History in Coastal Carolina | website=Coastwatch | date=7 February 2022 | url=https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/coastwatch/previous-issues/2015-2/spring-2015/beyond-the-beach-african-american-history-in-coastal-carolina/ | access-date=9 December 2023}}
  • {{cite web | title=Civil Rights Movement | website=North Carolina History Project | date=16 March 2016 | url=https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/civil-rights-movement/ | access-date=9 December 2023}}
  • {{cite web | title=Native American Tribes, Colonel History & the Wright Brothers | website=history.com| date=9 November 2009 | url=https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/north-carolina | access-date=9 December 2023}}

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