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African Americans in North Carolina

African-American North Carolinians or Black North Carolinians are residents of the state of North Carolina who are of African ancestry. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, African Americans were 22% of the state's population. African enslaved people were brought to North Carolina during the slave trade. In the 2020 Census, 2,140,217 North Carolina residents were identified as African American (20.5% of the total 10,439,388). In 5 of the state's 100 counties, African Americans make up more than 50% of the population: Bertie (59.8%), Hertford (57.5%), Edgecombe (56.1%), Northampton (55.5%), Halifax (51.1%). African Americans in the ten counties of Mecklenburg (330,458), Wake (208,493), Guilford (181,848), Cumberland (127,610), Durham (110,610), Forsyth (95,324), Pitt (60,414), Cabarrus (42,622), Gaston (40,323), Nash (36,958) make up more than 57% of all African Americans in the state.

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• ▸Alexandrian liturgical rites
• ▸Florinda (Winterhalter)
• ▸Croatian Canadians

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