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

by Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad

Book Overview

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"