Nineteenth-Century Maine
Maine's African-American community lifestyle and notable citizens during the 19th century. There is reference to Williamburg's large percentage of former slaves who migrated to work at slate quarries by invitation of General Oliver O. Howard after the Civil War.
http://www.visibleblackhistory.com/19th_century.htm
Hartford, Connecticut
This exhibits chronicles the creation of Hartford's African-American community from the fifteenth century. Section on "the first wave of immigration" during the Northern Migration.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/HBHP/exhibit/05/1.html
African American Odyssey: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
This Library of Congress site exhibit features some migration trends of African Americans during Reconstruction including the Northern Migration.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aopart5.html
The Migration to Ohio
This online scrapbook of Ohio history details important dates and figures in African-American migration movements to the North.
http://worlddmc.ohiolink.edu/OMP/YourScrapbook?scrapid=1550
Portal on the African-American presence in Southeastern Ohio
http://www.seorf.ohiou.edu/~xx057/
Very detailed Web Site on the African-American Experience in Ohio.
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/
Religion
This site focuses on the role of religion and the founding of churches, South and North, during that time period.
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/aarcwgmb.htm
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