Freedom Colonies : : Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow / / Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad.
In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclai...
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