Hallelujah Times
Eric Foner: The Great Migration, 29 June 2017
A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland
by Sydney Nathans.
Harvard, 313 pp., £23.95, February 2017,978 0 674 97214 8 Show More
by Sydney Nathans.
Harvard, 313 pp., £23.95, February 2017,
“... embark on the Great Migration, and far less attention has been paid to them. A Mind to Stay by Sydney Nathans deals with one small slice of that population. The book, Nathan’s life’s work (he began the interviews that led him to reconstruct this story forty years ago), is a marvellous example of how ‘microhistory’, based on a deep immersion in ... ”
