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In motion : the African-American migration experience by Howard Dodson; Sylviane A Diouf; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 beyond; of colonists leaving their land to settle on foreign shores; of southerners migrating west and north; and of immigrants arriving from the Caribbean, South America, and Africa. Although the Atlantic slave trade has created an enduring image of black people as transported commodities, and is usually considered the single element in the construction of the African Diaspora, it is centuries of additional migrations that have given shape to the nation we know today, a nation different from that forged solely by the dreadful transportation of the Africans against their will. And it is this vast array of migrations that truly defines the African American experience. Always on the move, resourceful, and creative, men and women of African

Who reads In motion : the African-American migration experience?

Author

Howard Dodson; Sylviane A Diouf; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Publisher

National Geographic Society

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780792273851

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Science, Sociology

Rating

4.6 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14