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An authoritative text and historical and contemporary photographs that bring independent African American communities out of the shadows of history.

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Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad have made an important contribution to African American and southern history with their study of communities fashioned by freedmen in the years after emancipation. * Journal of American History *

Table of Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Terrible Freedom
  • 3. Making Do, Getting By
  • 4. Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings
  • 5. School Days
  • 6. Working for the Man
  • 7. Decline and Remembrance
  • Appendix: Freedmen's Settlements and Other Rural African American Landowner Communities, by County
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/2005
      ISBN13: 9780292706422, 978-0292706422
      ISBN10: 0292706421
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An authoritative text and historical and contemporary photographs that bring independent African American communities out of the shadows of history.

      Trade Review
      Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad have made an important contribution to African American and southern history with their study of communities fashioned by freedmen in the years after emancipation. * Journal of American History *

      Table of Contents
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. A Terrible Freedom
      • 3. Making Do, Getting By
      • 4. Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings
      • 5. School Days
      • 6. Working for the Man
      • 7. Decline and Remembrance
      • Appendix: Freedmen's Settlements and Other Rural African American Landowner Communities, by County
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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