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25 Judges J. 19 (1986)
Black Immigration: Disavowing the Stereotype of the Shiftless Negro

handle is hein.journals/judgej25 and id is 75 raw text is: The saga of the Black immigrant begins in the early 1600s. The atrocities commit- ted upon Blacks while still in Africa, the devastating and often lethal ocean voy- ages, and the brutality of American enslavement have been frequently docu- mented. This article will examine the ef- fects of these historical injustices as they evolved and as they continue to manifest themselves. In addressing myself to an overview of Black immigration, its special features and distinguishing aspects, I am imme- diately stymied by a semantic concern. Can the appearance of Black people on this continent be appropriately included under the rubric immigration? Web- ster's defines immigration as coming to a new country . . . in order to settle there. This fails as even a poor approxi- mation of the facts concerning the emer- gence of the Black population on Amer- ica's shores. In the last century Alexis de Tocqueville noted, No African has ever voluntarily emigrated to the shores of the New World[.J NEITHER EXILE NOR DREAMER Black natives residing on the African continent had no notion of coming here to settle. Quite the contrary, the tribes of Black Africans had a stable, quiescent tradition within an agrarian economy. The lands they inhabited in the western Black Immigration: Disavowing the Stereotype of the Shiftless Negro By LaDoris Hazzard Cordell Spring 1986 19

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