Before humankind settled into sedentary, fixed settlements he was a migratory hunting homosapien and a gatherer of roots, herbs and fruits. Thus, migration was in man’s DNA and whenever he felt threatened or in moments of great crises, this inborn migratory tendency deep within the recesses of his mind and memory kicks in and off he goes. This paper shall examine the theme of migration as a fallout of the colonial experience in George Lamming’s novel The Emigrants. Establishing the interplay between history and literature that resulted in the concept of the historical novel shall be our starting point while our theoretical frameworks shall include the post-colonial and the historical with a slight touch of the psychological. Our conclusion is based on the principle of causality and the hypothesis that given such and such conditions, such and such happenstances should play out. The conditions for this assumption are taken from the colonial experiences of the characters in the novel, which the writer selects and make to come alive.