Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow - Paperback
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Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
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...
Thad Sitton is an independent historian and writer in Austin, Texas, who focuses on the social history of rural Texas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
James H. Conrad is an oral historian, librarian, and archivist at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
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