Sociology
After slavery was abolished in the USA and British Empire, policy makers claimed that former slaves migrating to these cities would experience:
assimilation
adaptation
discrimination
compensation
assimilation
When slavery was abolished in the 1860s, former slaves began to migrate from the southern to the northern states of the USA and to the industrial cities of Britain. Policy makers concerned with race relations optimistically argued that black and white groups would coexist harmoniously, as ethnic minorities would be ‘assimilated’ or acculturated into the dominant culture by abandoning their own cultural origins, and thus racial prejudice would disappear. 208
assimilation When slavery was abolished in the 1860s, former slaves began to migrate from the southern to the northern states of the USA and to the industrial cities of Britain. Policy makers concerned with race relations optimistically argued that black and white groups would coexist harmoniously, as ethnic minorities would be ‘assimilated’ or acculturated into the dominant culture by abandoning their own cultural origins, and thus racial prejudice would disappear. 208
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