Black Ozarkers
Black Ozarkers, who have also been called Ozark Mountain Blacks, are African Americans who are native to or residents of the once isolated Ozarks uplift, a forested and mountainous geo-cultural region in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. They are mostly descendants of the enslaved from America's upper south and Appalachian region of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina, being brought by European American slave owners in the western expansion beginning in the early 19th century.