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x, 622 pages ; 25 cm. |
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Edition |
First edition. |
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Originally published: New York : Random House, 2010. |
Contents |
In the land of the forefathers. Leaving ; The Great Migration, 1915-1970 -- Beginnings. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney ; The stirrings of discontent ; George Swanson Starling ; Robert Joseph Pershing Foster ; A burdensome labor ; The Awakening ; Breaking away -- Exodus. The appointed time of their crossing ; Crossing over -- The kinder mistress. Chicago ; New York ; Los Angeles ; The things they left behind ; Transplanted in alien soil ; Divisions ; To bend in strange winds ; The other side of Jordan ; Complications ; The river keeps running ; The prodigals ; Disillusionment ; Revolutions ; The fullness of the migration -- Aftermath. In the places they left ; Losses ; More North and West than South ; Redemption ; And, perhaps, to bloom ; The winter of their lives ; The emancipation of Ida Mae. |
ISBN |
0679444327 (alk. paper) |
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0679763880 (paperback) |
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9780679763888 (paperback) |
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9780679444329 (alk. paper) |
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144875593X (hbk.) |
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9781448755936 (hbk.) |
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