title: The Aftermath of Slavery: A Study of the Condition and Environment of the American Negro (Southern Classics)
author:  William A. Sinclair 
description: A historical analysis of slavery, Reconstruction, and its aftermath in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
zlib_text: ## A CENTURY OF NEGRO MIGRATION
  
  Carter G. Woodson
  
  ## TO MY FATHER
  
  ##### JAMES WOODSON
  
  ##### WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO ENTER THE LITERARY WORLD
  
  ## A CENTURY OF NEGRO MIGRATION
  
  ## PREFACE
  
  In treating this movement of the Negroes, the writer does not presume to say
  the last word on the subject. The exodus of the Negroes from the South has
  just begun. The blacks have recently realized that they have freedom of body
  and they will now proceed to exercise that right. To presume, therefore, to
  exhaust the treatment of this movement in its incipiency is far from the
  intention of the writer. The aim here is rather to direct attention to this
  new phase of Negro American life which will doubtless prove to be the most
  significant event in our local history since the Civil War.
  
  Many of the facts herein set forth have seen light before. The effort here is
  directed toward an original treatment of facts, many of which have already
  periodically appeared in some form. As these works, however