The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

by Ira Berlin

Book Overview

A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of more than six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670021377
• ISBN13: 9780670021376
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher