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African Americans are the largest racial minority in Virginia. According to the 2010 Census, more than 1.5 million, or one in five Virginians is "Black or African American". African Americans were enslaved in the state.^[3] As of the 2020 U.S. Census, African Americans were 18.6% of the state's population.^[4]

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The first twenty African slaves from Angola landed in Virginia in 1619 on a Portuguese slave ship.^[5] Lynchings, racial segregation andwhite supremacy were prevalent in Virginia.^[6] The first African slaves arrived in the British colonyJamestown, Virginia and were then bought by English colonists.^[7]

Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who fled to swamps in Virginia to escape slavery, circa 1700s until 1860s.^[8]

TheLaurel Grove Colored School and Church was a congregation founded by former enslaved African Americans in the 1880s inFranconia, Virginia.^[9] The school was active in the education of Black students from the early 1880s until 1932. The school building is now a living museum of a 1920s African Americanone room school; the site contains a cemetery; and the church operates as the Laurel Grove Baptist Church.^[10]

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