In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

by Schomburg Center For Research, Howard Dodson, Sylviane A. Diouf

Book Overview

African Americans, more than any other populations in the Americas, have been shaped by migrations. Their culture and history are the products of black peoples' various movements, coerced and voluntary, that started, in the Western Hemisphere, five hundred years ago. Theirs is the story of men and women forced out of Africa; of enslaved people moved from the coastal southeast to the Deep South; of fugitives walking to freedom across the country and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792273850
• ISBN13: 9780792273851
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

A Profound Study

More than any other differentiated group of people, African Americans have moved. The first section of this book, covers 1450 to 1865. In this period, large numbers of slaves were transported from Africa to America. This book covers this part of our time in great detail including both transportation, runaways, and the domestic slave trade. After the Civil War, the freed-slaves began their own migration away from the south to the northern and western states. There were two great migrations from the south to the industrial north during World War I and World War II. Finally since 1970 there have been migrations from the Caribbean areas and from Africa. Many of the immigrants from Africa came to the United States for college and did not return to Africa. There has also been a migration returning to the south. Each of these migrations is described in detail and the implications analyzed. The book is published by the National Geographic, and as you would guess, profusely illustrated.