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Most accounts of the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South situate their destinations as the busy boulevards of northern cities. To be sure, the majority of the six million Black Americans chose vibrant cities for their new homes. Little attention has been given to those Black Americans who did leave the Jim Crow South but opted to root themselves in similar agricultural settings. This presentation offers an examination of a unique group of Black Americans, most of whom were based in Southampton County, Virginia, who chose New York state but preferred the agrarian lifestyle of the Hamptons at the eastern end of Long Island to the hustle and bustle of Harlem and other Black urban enclaves of “the city.”

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