Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900

by Stephen A. Vincent

Book Overview

Southern Seed, Northern Soil captures the exceptional history of the Beech and Roberts settlements, two African-American and mixed-race farming communities on the Indiana frontier in the 1830s. Stephen Vincent analyzes the founders' backgrounds as a distinctive free people of color from the Old South. He traces the migration that culminated in the founding of the two communities. He follows the settlements' transformations through the pioneer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253213312
• ISBN13: 9780253213310
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"