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Edwards, Richard, 1944- author.
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African American farmers -- Great Plains -- History.
African Americans -- Migrations.
Agricultural colonies -- Great Plains -- History.
African Americans -- Land tenure -- Great Plains -- History.
African American pioneers -- Great Plains -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Great Plains.
Great Plains -- History.
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The first migrants :...
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The first migrants : how Black homesteaders' quest for land and freedom heralded America's Great Migration / Richard Edwards and Jacob K Friefeld ; preface by Angela Bates.
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Edwards, Richard, 1944- author.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Subjects
African American farmers -- Great Plains -- History.
African Americans -- Migrations.
Agricultural colonies -- Great Plains -- History.
African Americans -- Land tenure -- Great Plains -- History.
African American pioneers -- Great Plains -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Great Plains.
Great Plains -- History.
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9781496230843 hardcover :
1496230841 hardcover
Description:
xix, 458 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Contents:
Land! -- Push and Pull -- A new start at Nicodemus -- Nicodemus flourishes -- Henry and Mary Burden's flight to freedom -- Homesteading alone -- DeWitty and the Sandhills -- The Speese Family odyssey -- Opportunity in Sully County -- Tragedy and failure at Empire -- Oscar Micheaux, a/k/a "The Homesteader" -- Sand and success at Dearfield -- Struggles in the desert at Blackdom -- Black homesteaders and the Great Migration -- Gen H's legacy -- Epilogue: Where re the Black farmers? -- Appendix: Black homesteaders and white racism.
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"The First Migrants explores the narrative histories of Black homesteaders in the Great Plains and the larger themes which characterize their shared experiences"--
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