Any Black Americans with longstanding roots OUTSIDE of the south?

[Buddy]

Met a breh today whose family has been in Pennsylvania since the 1700s. I said whaaat? It's always fascinating

 

[Sbp]

The New Yorkers who's ancestors owned Property in Seneca village before it got turned into central park.

 

[Redwood]

I've always wondered if I had cousins in the DMV

 

[blockburna420]

On my pops side we deep in Chicago and Detroit. My granny was born in Detroit in 1934 not long but early

 

[Samori Toure]

Met a breh today whose family has been in Pennsylvania since the 1700s. I said whaaat? It's always fascinating

The Northern States had slavery too. New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts all had slavery back as far as the 1600s.

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Met a breh today whose family has been in Pennsylvania since the 1700s. I said whaaat? It's always fascinating

I thought this was relatively common

 

[JustRegularBlack]

On my pops side we deep in Chicago and Detroit. My granny was born in Detroit in 1934 not long but early

I personally wouldn't consider this longstanding. She was there early but the Great Migration started in like the 1910s so Black folks were moving in large numbers by that point.

 

[UpAndComing]

Old Dirty b*stard is one of them

 

[Buddy]

The Northern States had slavery too. New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts all had slavery back as far as the 1600s.

That's not in question breh

I thought this was relatively common

Maybe. I'm not from up north.

 

[Bigblackted4]

My great great grandmother born in 1900 was born in Ohio to a black and Native American parents

 

[Samori Toure]

That's not in question breh

That answers your question. Some Black Americans have long standing roots outside of the South because their ancestors were slaves in the North. Some Black Americans have no connections to the South.

 

[BrothaZay]

I know my grandma was from Illinois I believe her parents were too

 

[Buddy]

That answers your question. Some Black Americans have long standing roots outside of the South because their ancestors were slaves in the North. Some Black Americans have no connections to the South.

I didn't ask why tho lol I'm just curious if any are on here, seeing how I don't come across many

 

[Samori Toure]

I didn't ask why tho lol I'm just curious if any are on here, seeing how I don't come across many

Aight broah.