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Page 538
... South . This is not to say that African Americans were completely immobile prior to the Great Migration . A number of black homesteaders left the South before the Civil War to settle what was then the frontier in Indiana and other ...
... South . This is not to say that African Americans were completely immobile prior to the Great Migration . A number of black homesteaders left the South before the Civil War to settle what was then the frontier in Indiana and other ...
Page 539
... South ; by 1970 this figure had dropped to about 53 percent . As during earlier migrations , most of those who left the South settled in the Midwest and Northeast . In 1970 , those two regions of the country were home to nearly 9 ...
... South ; by 1970 this figure had dropped to about 53 percent . As during earlier migrations , most of those who left the South settled in the Midwest and Northeast . In 1970 , those two regions of the country were home to nearly 9 ...
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... South . Instead of arming slaves , South Carolina used them to increase white enlistment by promising a slave as a bounty to any white who enlisted . Both South Carolina and Georgia did , however , allow slaves taken from the ...
... South . Instead of arming slaves , South Carolina used them to increase white enlistment by promising a slave as a bounty to any white who enlisted . Both South Carolina and Georgia did , however , allow slaves taken from the ...
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Editorial Board | 500 |
Readers Guide xiii | 507 |
African Americans in Halls of Fame | 907 |
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