Freedom Colonies Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow

Name: Freedom Colonies Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
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ISBN: 9780292706422

ISBN-10: 0292706421

ISBN-13: 9780292706422

Edition: 2005

Authors: Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad, Richard Orton

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'Freedom Colonies' tells the story of the African Americans who, in the wake of the Civil War, managed to acquire unclaimed land that they made productive and turned into successful family farms. It is estimated that a quarter of African Americans thus evaded the share-cropping system.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880




Introduction



A Terrible Freedom



Making Do, Getting By



Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings



School Days



Working for the Man



Decline and Remembrance


Appendix: Freedmen's Settlements and Other Rural African American Landowner Communities, by County


Notes


Bibliography


Index