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What were the main causes of migration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century

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The second significant cause of the Great Migration was the desire of black Southerners to escape segregation, known euphemistically as Jim Crow. Rural African American Southerners believed that segregation - and racism and prejudice against blacks - was significantly less intense in the North.Jul 2, 2016


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