African Americans in Florida

African Americans in Florida
Total population
	3,337,159 (2014)
Regions with significant populations
	North Florida and Miami metropolitan area
Languages
	Southern American English, African-American Vernacular English, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, Cuban Spanish, Gullah, Afro-Seminole Creole, Miami English, Caribbean English, African languages
Religion
	Christianity, Haitian Voodoo, Black Protestant, Evangelical Protestant, Black Catholicism, Jehovah's Witness, Irreligion, Santería, Rastafari
Related ethnic groups
	Afro-Cubans, Afro-Caribbeans, Black Seminoles, Gullah, West Indian Americans, Black Hispanic and Latino Americans, Bahamian Americans, Jamaican Americans, Haitian Americans, Hispanics in Florida, Indigenous peoples of Florida

As of the 2010 U.S. Census, African Americans were 16.6% of the population of Florida.^[4] The African-American presence in the peninsula extends as far back as the early 18th century, when African-American slaves escaped from slavery in Georgia into the swamps of the peninsula. Black slaves were brought to Florida by Spanish conquistadors.^[5]^[6]

^ "Florida". blackdemographics.com.
^ Hero, Rodney E.; Schmidt, Ronald; Aoki, Andrew L.; Alex-Assensoh, Yvette M. (2009). Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472022199.
^ "Religious Landscape Study".
^ "Florida QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". Quickfacts.census.gov. 2011. Archived from the original on May 8, 2013. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
^ "Black Seminoles—Gullahs Who Escaped From Slavery" (PDF).
^ Colburn, David; Landers, Jane (2018). The African American Heritage of Florida. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-1-947372-69-6.

[1] "Florida". blackdemographics.com.

[2] Hero, Rodney E.; Schmidt, Ronald; Aoki, Andrew L.; Alex-Assensoh, Yvette M. (2009). Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472022199.

[3] "Religious Landscape Study".

[4] "Florida QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". Quickfacts.census.gov. 2011. Archived from the original on May 8, 2013. Retrieved January 20, 2014.

[5] "Black Seminoles—Gullahs Who Escaped From Slavery" (PDF).

[6] Colburn, David; Landers, Jane (2018). The African American Heritage of Florida. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-1-947372-69-6.

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Total population
3,337,159^[1] (2014)
Regions with significant populations
North Florida and Miami metropolitan area^[2]
Languages
Southern American English, African-American Vernacular English, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, Cuban Spanish, Gullah, Afro-Seminole Creole, Miami English, Caribbean English, African languages
Religion
Christianity, Haitian Voodoo, Black Protestant, Evangelical Protestant, Black Catholicism, Jehovah's Witness, Irreligion, Santería,^[3] Rastafari
Related ethnic groups
Afro-Cubans, Afro-Caribbeans, Black Seminoles, Gullah, West Indian Americans, Black Hispanic and Latino Americans, Bahamian Americans, Jamaican Americans, Haitian Americans, Hispanics in Florida, Indigenous peoples of Florida