{"id":43402,"date":"2015-10-22T01:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43402"},"modified":"2015-10-22T01:19:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:19:06","slug":"the-slave-trail-of-tears-is-the-great-missing-migration-a-thousand-mile-long-river-of-people-all-of-them-black-reaching-from-virginia%ef%bb%bf-to-louisiana%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43402","title":{"rendered":"The Slave Trail of Tears is the great missing migration\u2014a thousand-mile-long river of people, all of them black, reaching from Virginia\ufeff to Louisiana\ufeff."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Slave Trail of Tears is the great missing migration\u2014a thousand-mile-long river of people, all of them black, reaching from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana<\/a>. During the 50 years before the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>, about a million enslaved people moved from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upland_South\" target=\"_blank\">Upper South<\/a>\u2014Virginia, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maryland\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kentucky\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky<\/a>\u2014to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_South\" target=\"_blank\">Deep South<\/a>\u2014Louisiana, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alabama\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama<\/a>. They were made to go, deported, you could say, having been sold.<\/p>\n<p>This forced resettlement was 20 times larger than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Jackson\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Jackson\u2019s<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Removal_Act\" target=\"_blank\">Indian removal<\/a>\u201d campaigns of the 1830s, which gave rise to the original <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trail_of_Tears\" target=\"_blank\">Trail of Tears<\/a> as it drove tribes of Native Americans out of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(U.S._state)\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a>, Mississippi and Alabama. It was bigger than the immigration of Jews into the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a> during the 19th century, when some 500,000 arrived from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russia\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_Europe\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Europe<\/a>. It was bigger than the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wagon_train\" target=\"_blank\">wagon-train<\/a> migration to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">West<\/a>, beloved of American lore. This movement lasted longer and grabbed up more people than any other migration in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_America\" target=\"_blank\">North America<\/a> before 1900.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.yale.edu\/people\/full-part-time-lecturers-creative-writers\/edward-ball\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Ball<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43394\" target=\"_blank\">Retracing Slavery\u2019s Trail of Tears<\/a>,\u201d <em>Smithsonian Magazine<\/em>, November 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/slavery-trail-of-tears-180956968\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/slavery-trail-of-tears-180956968<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slave Trail of Tears is the great missing migration\u2014a thousand-mile-long river of people, all of them black, reaching from Virginia to Louisiana. During the 50 years before the Civil War, about a million enslaved people moved from the Upper South\u2014Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky\u2014to the Deep South\u2014Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama. They were made to go, deported, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2882,10478],"class_list":["post-43402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-edward-ball","tag-smithsonian-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43404,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43402\/revisions\/43404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}