Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow

by Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad

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Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award, 2006
Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 2007

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 unclaimed land that had...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0292706421

ISBN13:9780292706422

Release Date:March 2005

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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