In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

Access: Publicly available resource

Description: AAME presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and 60 maps on the history of African-American migration. Segments include:

• Transatlantic Slave Trade (1450s - 1867)
• Runaway Journeys (1630s - 1865)
• The Domestic Slave Trade (1760s - 1865)
• Colonization and Emigration (1783 - 1910s)
• Haitian Immigration : Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1791 - 1809)
• The Western Migration (1840s - 1970)
• The Northern Migration (1840s - 1890)
• The Great Migration (1916 - 1930)
• The Second Great Migration (1940 - 1970)
• Caribbean Migration (1900 - present)
• Return Migration to the South (1970 - present)
• Haitian Immigration : 20th Century (1970 - present)
• African Immigration (1970 - present)

Subject(s):
Digital Archives & Collections
Publicly Available Resources

Related Databases
America : History and Life

Related Links
American Memory
Documenting the American South ** http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html **
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