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| 3.002 million[1] (2020) | |
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| In major New York cities such asNew York City,Buffalo,Syracuse,Albany, andRochester and also smaller cities and towns in or near theHudson Valley between New York City and Albany such as Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and Monticello[2] | |
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African-American New Yorkers are residents of the U.S. state ofNew York who are ofAfrican American ancestry. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, African-Americans were 17.6% of the state's population.[4] New York has the fourth largest African American population of any state in the United States, after Texas, Georgia and Florida.[5] Black people were brought to the state during the slave trade when New York was a Dutch colony.[6][7][8][9] New York abolished slavery in 1827.[10] Many black Southerners from Southern states such as Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas moved to the state during theGreat Migration. A second Black migration wave from Caribbean countries such asJamaica began around the same time.[11]
