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Jan 23, 2020 · As enslavement continued through the 1800s, African American culture included naming practices that were national in scope by the time of emancipation, and intimately related to the slave trade.
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Jan 29, 2024 · Here, our list of notable early African American names, ordered by their current popularity on Nameberry. RELATED: Early African-American Names, including names used by African Americans from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, such asMoses, Alonzo, Phoebe, and Titus.
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The articles use several interesting resources to get insights about these last names in African American communities: Renowned and historical figures. Censuses from 1870, 1900, and 1940. Military records from the Civil War and early 20th century.
Long before Tyrone, Jermaine and Darnell came along, there were Isaac, Abe and Prince. A new study reveals the earliest evidence of distinctively Black first names in the United States, finding them arising in the early 1700s and then becoming increasingly common in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
We document the existence of a distinctive national naming pattern for African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We use census records to identify a set of high-frequency names among African Americans that were unlikely to be held by whites.
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Feb 24, 2022 · Others went with Washington, Williams, Brown or Johnson — surnames typical before enslavement that remain ubiquitous today. Some newly freed Black folks who could read chose unique names they ...
Jan 17, 2023 · Were there distinctly African-American names a century ago? And if so, how do we find them?
