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African-American North Carolinians orBlack North Carolinians are residents of the state ofNorth Carolina who are ofAfrican 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]

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 theWest 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 fromracial segregation. Most white people in North Carolina sought to refine the Jim Crow system and retain systematic segregation.^[6]

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]

• 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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• J. Cole

• 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
• Black Southerners
• History of North Carolina
• Demographics of North Carolina
• List of African-American historic places in North Carolina
• List of African-American newspapers in North Carolina

Wikimedia Commons has media related toAfrican 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. Retrieved9 December 2023.
• Sharpe, Cynthia (7 February 2022)."Beyond The Beach: African-American History in Coastal Carolina".Coastwatch. Retrieved9 December 2023.
• "Civil Rights Movement".North Carolina History Project. 16 March 2016. Retrieved9 December 2023.
• "Native American Tribes, Colonel History & the Wright Brothers".history.com. 9 November 2009. Retrieved9 December 2023.

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