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The First Migrants : How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration
Title
The First Migrants : How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration / Richard Edwards and Jacob K Friefeld.
ISBN
9781496236494
9781496230843
Publication
Lincoln : [University of Nebraska Press], 2023.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations, portraits, map
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"The Homesteading Project, University of Nebraska."--Title page.
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"The First Migrants explores the narrative histories of Black homesteaders in the Great Plains and the larger themes which characterize their shared experiences"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2023
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 Are the black farmers?
Appendix: Black homesteaders and white racism.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Also listed under
University of Nebraska. Homesteading Project, issuing body.
Project Muse. distributor
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