Making of African America : The Four Great Migrations

by Berlin, Ira (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780670021376
• ISBN10: 0670021377
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-21
• Publisher: Viking Adult

Summary

Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America. Berlin's magisterial new account of these passages evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America over four centuries.

Author Biography

Ira Berlin is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His many books include Slaves Without Masters, Generation of Captivity, and Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and winner of the Bancroft Prize for the best book in American history and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Movement and Place in the African American Past	p. 14
The Transatlantic Passage	p. 49
The Passage to the Interior	p. 99
The Passage to the North	p. 152
Global Passages	p. 201
Epilogue	p. 230
Acknowledgments	p. 241
Notes	p. 245
Index	p. 289
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