According to answers provided to an open-ended question included in the 2000 census, 1,716 people said that their ancestry or ethnic origin was Togolese.
[4] The first people from present-day Togo arrived in the United States enslaved.
The Gulf Coast includes the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Most of the slaves belonged to the Ewe people which inhabit the south-eastern part of Ghana, Togo, Benin, and south-western Nigeria.
This lasted until 1859, when Togolese-descended Cudjo Lewis arrived to Mobile from Dahomey.