List of U.S. states and territories by African-American population
List of U.S. states and territories by African-American population
!Proportion of African Americans in each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census
List of U.S. states and territories by African-American population
!Proportion of [black Americans in each county of the fifty states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/BlackAmericansbycounty.png/960px-BlackAmericansbycounty.png)
African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020)
From 1787 to 1868, enslaved African Americans were counted in the U.S. census under the Three-fifths Compromise. The compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population. This count would determine the number of seats for each state in the U.S. House of Representatives and, should direct taxation be imposed by Congress (which was never done under Article I, section 2, clause 3 of the Constitution), how much each state would pay in taxes. The compromise counted three-fifths of each state's slave population toward that state's total population for the purpose of apportioning the U.S. House of Representatives. Even though slaves were denied voting rights, this gave Southern states more U.S. representatives and more presidential electoral votes than if slaves had not been counted. Free blacks and indentured servants were not affected by the proviso, and each was counted as one full person for representation.
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