Any Black Americans that have absolutely NO roots down south?

[Counter Racist Male]

Are there any people who are black American ADOS that have absolutely no roots in the American south? I mean You have no relatives down or from the south?
Does this phenomenon is this And if so does this describe you?

 

[The Quixotic]

We all originate from the south in some fashion because the slave ports where our ancestors landed are there.

We spread out via either landbased slave trading routes(as exported goods) or various migrations.

Could be wrong and stand to learn something new though, so thread bookmarked.

 

[Asicz]

Maybe if you had ancestors enslaved in New York Philly or Boston and their descendants stayed in the Northern USA. Also ancestors passing through a port in the South or Mid Atlantic area on the coast doesn't necessarily mean you have roots in the South.

 

[Counter Racist Male]

We all originate from the south in some fashion because the slave ports where our ancestors landed are there.

We spread out via either landbased slave trading routes(as exported goods) or various migrations.

Could be wrong and stand to learn something new though, so thread bookmarked.

I mean do you know any black Americans who has ancestors they have never set foot in the south? Because I don’t think I’ve ever met any.

 

[Counter Racist Male]

Maybe if you had ancestors enslaved in New York Philly or Boston and their descendants stayed in the Northern USA. Also ancestors passing through a port in the South or Mid Atlantic area on the coast doesn't necessarily mean you have roots in the South.

I know there was slavery of North in Boston New York and Pennsylvania But I believe those states in the slavery quite early in America’s history. The question is where were the descendants of those slaves be these days?

 

[Asicz]

I know there was slavery of North in Boston New York and Pennsylvania But I believe those states in the slavery quite early in America’s history. The question is where were the descendants of those slaves be these days?

I think their descendants are still in those states today or just moved recently to the South because of the recent reverse black migration tonthw South for economic opportunity and housing.

The grand child of an enslaved or black indentured servant in PA would not have moved to the South I don't think. Like why would they return to the South ?


Pennsylvania officially abolished slavery in 1780. But many black Pennsylvanians were in bondage long after that.

Kearney has retraced some of the steps of Samuel Ganges, one of the Africans who had been saved, then indentured. He was born in Guinea, circa 1777. After arriving in Philadelphia in 1800, he was indentured to Edward Brinton Temple of Pennsbury for four years, a common term for black people bound in their 20s. The indenture directed that Temple train him in farm work and teach him how to read and write.

Ganges stayed in Chester County for the rest of his life. He was a servant in his 70s, but later moved to the Chester County poorhouse, where he died in 1868.

Ganges was survived by one son, named George, who became an ice cream shop owner in West Chester and fathered at least eight children.

Joseph Mitchell, a high-performance coach based in Brewerytown, is Ganges’ great-great-grandson, according to Kearney. Mitchell, 63, said he was surprised to learn of an ancestor who had been indentured. Mitchell said

 

[Asicz]

Census.gov › POP-twps0056PDF
Web results
Historical Census Statistics on Population Totals by Race, 1790 to 1990, and by ...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw1Aws0jl2W_pid1QIQhPvPa

 

[King Poetic]

I highly doubt it

 

[Asicz]

In every U.S. Census prior to 1910, more than 90% of the African-American population lived in the American South.[4] In 1900, only one-fifth of African Americans living in the South were living in urban areas.[5] By the end of the Great Migration, just over 50% of the African-American population remained in the South, while a little less than 50% lived in the North and West,[6] and the African-American population had become highly urbanized. By 1960, of those African Americans still living in the South, half now lived in urban areas,[5] and by 1970, more than 80% of African Americans nationwide lived in cities.[7]

Great Migration (African American) - Wikipedia.

 

[JBoy]

I would be shocked if you could find any at this point, the arrival of Southern Blacks in the North/West in large numbers meant that it is almost a near inevitability that they would eventually end up with some form of Southern ancestry

 

[invalid]

I have family lines that go back to Delaware, Massachusetts and New York. Those branches of the family converged into the paternal family of my grandmother in Ontario, Canada. They got there due to abolitionist work. Great-grandather married my great-grandmother who was from Ohio. So essentially my maternal grandmother has all northern roots.

She, however, married a man from South Carolina so my mother is half northerner/half southern. My dad's side is all from the south.

Just with all the mixing of ADOS and the influx of southerners into northern cities, I suspect there is not any pure northern black families around like there would be pure southern black families.

 

[Asicz]

@THEHEAVEST that link I posted breaks down the black population in each state and the US as a whole from the 18th century to the 20tj century

 

[Asicz]

I think it would be cool to get like 100 current black residents of Philly or PA amd trace their genealogy and see if there are Southern roots or not.

I also may put in Philly rappers like Beanie Segel,Will Smith,Black Thought and trace their roots

I wonder if the modern urban blacks ericans in Philly and Pittsburgh descend from the great northern migration or slavery in PA and in what percentage and in what numbers.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Pre-migration it's possible but after that very unlikely.

 

[frush11]

I know a girl from Boston who has no known Southern roots in her family. Everything as far as the history she knows is Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York State.