When the first slave escaped bondage in the American South and migrated to the Northeast region of the United States, this act of an individual started what became known as the "great migration" of African Americans fleeing the feudal South for New York and other Northern cities. This migration fueled an intellectual, social, and personal pursuit--the long-standing quest for identity by a lost tribe of African Americans--by every black man, woman, and child in America. In Harlem, that quest was anchored by a wide array of civic, business, and prominent leaders who succeeded in establishing...
When the first slave escaped bondage in the American South and migrated to the Northeast region of the United States, this act of an individual sta...
