African Americans in New York (state)

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. New York has the third largest African American population of any state in the United States, after Texas and Georgia. Black people were brought to the state during the slave trade when New York was a Dutch colony. New York abolished slavery in 1827. 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.