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African Americans in New York
Total population
3.002 million[1] (2020)
Regions with significant populations
In major New York cities such as New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, and Rochester and also smaller cities and towns in or near the Hudson Valley between New York City and Albany such as Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and Monticello[2]
Religion
Christianity[3]

African-American New Yorkers are residents of the U.S. state of New York who are of African American ancestry. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, African-Americans were 17.6% of the state's population.[4] New York has the fourth largest African American population of any state in the United States, after Texas, Georgia and Florida.[5] Black people were brought to the state during the slave trade when New York was a Dutch colony.[6][7][8][9] New York abolished slavery in 1827.[10] Many black Southerners from Southern states such as Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas moved to the state during the Great Migration. A second Black migration wave from Caribbean countries such as Jamaica began around the same time.[11] African slaves spoke Dutch in New Netherlands.[12]

Some Black New Yorkers are Black Indians. Due to a history of intermarriage between Black and Shinnecock people, many citizens of the Shinnecock Indian Nation have African ancestry.[13][14]

Population

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In the 2020 Census, 2,986,172 New York residents were identified as African American (of the total 20,201,249).[15] In two of the state's 62 counties, African Americans make up more than 20% of the population: Bronx (33.1%) and Kings (28.2%). African Americans in the seven counties of Kings (772,050), Bronx (487,118), Queens (403,077), New York (229,361), Nassau (153,274), Westchester (141,094), and Erie (134,795) make up more than 77% of all African Americans in the state.[16]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "New York – Place Explorer – Data Commons". datacommons.org. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "New York State - BlackDemographics.com". Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Religious Landscape Study". Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Quickfacts census.gov
  5. ↑ Tamir, Christine (25 March 2021). "The Growing Diversity of Black America". Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  6. ↑ "Was There Slavery In New York City & New York State? | MNYS". www.mnys.org. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  7. ↑ McDonnell, Michael A. (2001). "Slavery and Community in the New York Region". Australasian Journal of American Studies. 20 (2): 110–112. JSTOR 41053874. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "Life in New Amsterdam Educator Resource Guide" (PDF). Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  9. ↑ Wagman, Morton (9 January 1980). "Corporate Slavery in New Netherland". The Journal of Negro History. 65 (1): 34–42. doi:10.2307/3031546. JSTOR 3031546. S2CID 150062964. Retrieved 9 December 2023 – via CrossRef.
  10. ↑ Eisenstadt, Peter (2005). The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0808-0. Retrieved 9 December 2023 – via Google Books.
  11. ↑ "New York Migration History 1850–2018 – America's Great Migrations". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  12. ↑ "Sojourner Truth: How the Enslaved Woman of a Dutch-New York Family Became an Icon of America's Black Liberation Movement". UC Berkeley.
  13. ↑ "Black History, and the Shinnecock Indian Nation, a story". African American Registry. Retrieved 2026-03-30.
  14. ↑ "It's Complicated: Identity And The Descendants Of Long Island's Enslaved People". WSHU-FM. Retrieved 2026-03-30.
  15. ↑ This figure refers to those who report African American and no other race.
  16. ↑ "RACE". Decennial Census, DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), Table P1. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2026-01-03.
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