Freedom Colonies : Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture Series .
- Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Terrible Freedom -- Chapter 3: Making Do, Getting By -- Chapter 4: Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings -- Chapter 5: School Days -- Chapter 6: Working for the Man -- Chapter 7: Decline and Remembrance -- Appendix: Freedmen's Settlements and Other Rural African American Landowner Communities, by County -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Freed persons-Texas-History. African American farmers-Texas-History. African Americans-Land tenure-Texas-History. African Americans-Texas-Economic conditions. Agricultural colonies-Texas-History. Land settlement-Texas-History. Texas-History-1846-1950. Texas-Race relations. Texas-Economic conditions.