Go Tell It on the Mountain | Historical Context
The Rise of Harlem
The Harlem area of New York City, where the Grimes family resides, is internationally famous as a predominantly African-American neighborhood with a rich cultural history spanning back to the beginning of the twentieth century. The first great wave of blacks started migrating to New York in the 1890s. Like Gabriel and Florence, this was the generation that had been born after slavery ended in 1865, the children of freed slaves in the South—a generation with a greater sense of freedom than any before them. Between 1890 and 1910, the black...
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