In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

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.