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Author Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018.

Title The making of African America : the four great migrations / Ira Berlin.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2010.

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 Moore Stacks  E185 .B473 2010    Available  ---
Description 304 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life. This new account evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. Historian Ira Berlin finds a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive movement, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos.--From publisher description.
Contents Movement and place in the African American past -- The transatlantic passage -- The passage to the interior -- The passage to the North -- Global passages.
Subject African Americans -- History.
African Americans.
History.
African Americans -- Migrations -- History.
African Americans -- Migrations.
Slave trade -- United States -- History.
Slave trade.
United States.
Slave trade -- Atlantic Ocean -- History.
Atlantic Ocean.
Migration, Internal -- United States -- History.
Migration, Internal.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Emigration and immigration.
ISBN 9780670021376
0670021377