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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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Terrible Freedom
- 3. Making Do, Getting By
- 4. Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings
- 5. School Days
- 6. Working for the Man
- 7. Decline and Remembrance
- Appendix: Freedmen’s Settlements and Other Rural African American Landowner Communities, by County
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index