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The African-American Migration Experience

The transatlantic slave trade has created an enduring image of black men and women as transported commodities, and is usually considered the most defining element in the construction of the African Diaspora, but it is centuries of additional movements that have given shape to the nation we know today.

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds…[O]nly the transatlantic slave trade and the domestic slave trades were coerced, the eleven other [migrations] were voluntary movements of resourceful and creative men and women, risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment.