African Americans in Georgia (U.S. state)
African-American Georgians are residents of the U.S. state of Georgia who are of African American ancestry. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, African Americans were 31.2% of the state's population.[1]
 African American slaves in Georgia in 1850 | |
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| Atlanta metropolitan area, Albany, Columbus, Augusta, Savannah, Macon, Valdosta | |
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| Southern American English | |
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| Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, atheism | |
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| Gullah, White Southerners, English Americans, Irish Americans, Mexican Americans, Black Hispanic and Latino Americans, Romani Americans, African Americans in California, African Americans in Alabama, African Americans in Mississippi, African Americans in Tennessee |
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African Americans lynched in Georgia in 1916.
History
Spanish colonists brought African slaves in Georgia in 1526.[2] African slaves imported to Georgia primarily came from Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia.[3] They were primarily enslaved by British Americans.
Lynching
Notable people
- Jackie Robinson
- Andrew Young
- Harriet Tubman
- Wilton Gregory, Catholic cardinal
- James Brown
- Ray Charles
See also
- African Americans in Atlanta
- History of slavery in Georgia (U.S. state)
- African Americans in Florida
- Treatment of the enslaved in the United States
- American Civil War
- Jim Crow laws
- Demographics of Georgia (U.S. state)
- Gullah
- African Americans in Chicago
- African Americans in Texas
- African Americans in Louisiana
- African Americans in North Carolina
- African Americans in South Carolina
- African Americans in Alabama
- African Americans in Mississippi
- African Americans in California
- African Americans in Tennessee
- Black Southerners
- Moore's Ford lynchings
- African Americans in Virginia
- List of African-American historic places in Georgia
- List of African-American newspapers in Georgia
References
- "Georgia QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". Quickfacts.census.gov. 2011. Archived from the original on June 22, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
- https://www.todayingeorgiahistory.org/tih-georgia-day/lucas-vasquez-de-ayllon/
- "Slavery in Colonial Georgia". New Georgia Encyclopedia.
External links
- Georgia African American History and Culture
- Slavery in Colonial Georgia
- Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction
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