All 9 Uses
migrate
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The Souls of Black Folk
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- Schemes of migration and colonization arose among them; but these they refused to entertain, and they eventually turned to the Abolition movement as a final refuge.†
Chpt 3 *migration = movement from one place to another
- Hard tales of cruelty and mistreatment of the chained freemen are told, but the county authorities were deaf until the free-labor market was nearly ruined by wholesale migration.†
Chpt 7
- The system of labor and the size of the houses both tend to the breaking up of family groups: the grown children go away as contract hands or migrate to town, the sister goes into service; and so one finds many families with hosts of babies, and many newly married couples, but comparatively few families with half-grown and grown sons and daughters.†
Chpt 8migrate = move from one place to another
- One of two things: if any way possible, they buy land; if not, they migrate to town.†
Chpt 8
- Even in the better-ordered country districts of the South the free movement of agricultural laborers is hindered by the migration-agent laws.†
Chpt 8migration = movement from one place to another
- Thus it is that in the country districts of the South, by written or unwritten law, peonage, hindrances to the migration of labor, and a system of white patronage exists over large areas.†
Chpt 8
- As a result of such a situation, there arose, first, the Black Belt; and, second, the Migration to Town.†
Chpt 8
- For these there is one other avenue of escape toward which they have turned in increasing numbers, namely, migration to town.†
Chpt 8
- Without this there is riot, migration, or crime.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(migrate) move from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)