The Promised Land
The Promised Land: the Great Black Migration and How it Changed America by Nicholas Leman is both an informative book on the subject of the black migration from the south to the north as said in the title. The book itself takes place between 1940 and 1970, spanning the whole migration itself, along with some facts from pre-civil war times around the late 1800's. In the book, Leman covers certain different topics, spanning from the black situation in the early 1900's, to his thoughts on a better government.
Leman starts off with a basic background on how things started with the black struggle; plantations, or more specifically, cotton fields. From the cotton gin on, Leman mentions the advances made in the industry, technology wise. Regardless of the situation or the crop, the main point Leman made was that the blacks in the south were always exploited in every situation. As slaves, as workers, even as sharecroppers (which according to Leman was pretty much an extension of......
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