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]
History
Slaves primarily came from Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia.[2] Slaves worked on cotton and rice plantations for white slave owners.[3]
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See also
- African Americans in Atlanta
- History of slavery in Georgia (U.S. state)
- African Americans in Tennessee
- White Americans 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.
- "Slavery in Colonial Georgia". New Georgia Encylopedia. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
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