Black Southerners

Black Southerners are African Americans who live in the Southern United States. African Americans were enslaved in most states in the South such as Alabama and Mississippi. African Americans have contributed to the cuisine of the Southern United States and Southern culture.

Black Southerners Media

• Emancipation Day celebration - 1900-06-19.jpg

  Celebration of Emancipation Day (Juneteenth) in 1900, in Texas

• Photographs from the Puckett Collection- African American Children in the Southern United States - DPLA - 7cc16a3b947ee1c1b0758ad8ccaba625 (page 3).jpg

  African American children in the South

• Black cotton pickers in the southern United States, 1850.

• Crowe-Slaves Waiting for Sale - Richmond, Virginia.jpg

  Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond, Virginia, 1853. Note the new clothes. The domestic slave trade broke up many families, and individuals lost their connection to families and clans.

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  Cotton gin at Jarrell Plantation

• 1943 Colored Waiting Room Sign.jpg

  Racial segregation was commonplace in the South until the 1960s.

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  Beyoncé is a mixed black singer from Houston, Texas of African American and Louisiana Creole ancestry. Her African-American father Mathew Knowles is from Alabama and her Louisiana Creole mother Tina Knowles has roots in Louisiana.

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  a slice of sweet potato piemmm...mmm...time for pie!

• Pecan pie, November 2010.jpg

  Pecan pie.

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  This is a bowl of Hoppin' John