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The Black Belt is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama. The term originally referred to the region's rich, black soil, [ 1 ] much of it in the soil order Vertisols . The term took on an additional meaning in the 19th century, when the region was developed for cotton plantation agriculture, in which the workers were enslaved African Americans .
The Reference Book on Regional Well-Being: U.S. Regions, the Black Belt, Appalachia. (Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University, 1996) online. Highly detailed Statistics from 1990 census. Winemiller, Terance L. "Black Belt Region in Alabama" Encyclopedia of Alabama (2009) online; Yafa, Stephen.
The inner core of the Deep South, characterized by very rich black soil that supported cotton plantations, is a geological formation known as the Black Belt. The Black Belt has since become better known as a sociocultural region; in this context it is a term used for much of the Cotton Belt, which had a high percentage of African-American slave ...
The belt regions of the United States are portions of the country that share certain characteristics. The "belt" terminology was first applied to growing regions for various crops, which often follow lines of latitude because those are more likely to have similar climates. The allusion was to a long clothing belt, as seen on a map.
Black Belt is a physical geography term referring to a roughly crescent-shaped geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States. It is about 300 miles (480 km) long and up to 25 miles (40 km) wide in c. east–west orientation, mostly in central Alabama and northeast Mississippi .
Black Belt in the American South, A region of highly fertile black soil in the American South that was the center of slavery, and continues to have a large black population into the 21st century; Black Belt (geological formation), geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States
The Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area includes several natural landmarks. The entirety of Tuskegee National Forest is located in Macon County, while Talladega National Forest overlaps with part of the heritage area in Bibb, Perry, Hale and Dallas counties. Part of the Bartram Trail runs through the Tuskegee National Forest.
Extending from the Gulf northward for about 150 miles (240 km) is the outer belt of the Coastal Plain, also called the Timber Belt, whose soil is sandy and poor, but responds well to fertilization. North of this is the inner lowland of the Coastal Plain, or the Black Prairie, which includes some 13,000 square miles (34,000 km 2 ) and seventeen ...