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
African American slaves working on a cotton plantation in Georgia circa 1850

Slaves primarily came from Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia.[2] Slaves worked on cotton and rice plantations for white slave owners.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Georgia QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". Quickfacts.census.gov. 2011. Archived from the original on June 22, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  2. "Slavery in Colonial Georgia". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  3. Grant, Donald Lee (2001). The Way it was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia. ISBN 9780820323299.


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