Black Belt Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
historical region of the Southeastern United States
About Black Belt
The Black Belt follows a theme of geographic "belts" across North America, including the northeasternRust Beltand the southwesternSun Belt. Much of the South is part of the "Bible Belt", known for its many Evangelical Protestant congregations. The Black Belt is located along the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, between the Piedmont plateau and the Atlantic coastal plain. The chalk-rich soil of the Black Belt is prime land for commodity crops such as cotton and tobacco. As the Seaboard Fall Line forms the head of navigation for many rivers, many major cities of the South are lined up in the Black belt. Through theAtlantic slave trade, captives fromWest Africaarrived in Atlantic ports, most of them purchased by plantation owners. With expansion of plantations, indigenous Americans were relocated
Black Belt Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 5 sections including: