“The growth of the ‘living out’ system [of slave ownership], which meant that slaves had some choice of residence, resulted in the movement of blacks to the edges of town. They sough spots as far removed from their masters as possible...Thus, the first Americans to flee to the suburbs for racial reasons were blacks, not whites.” (18)

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)