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  2. List of freedmen's towns - Wikipedia

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    Chief among them was Edward P. McCabe, who envisioned so large a number of African-Americans settling in the territory that it would become a Black-governed state. In Texas, 357 such "freedom colonies" have been located and verified.

  3. Freedom Towns: A Vast but Largely Forgotten Movement of ... - AOL

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    The only public tribute he found to the town's most famous daughter was the name of the library. ... An African-American town could look rather different to a black observer and a white one ...

  4. Freedmen's town - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, a freedmen's town was an African American municipality or community built by freedmen, formerly enslaved people who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War. These towns emerged in a number of states, most notably Texas. [1] They are also known as freedom colonies, from the title of a book by Sitton and ...

  5. Townsville mutiny - Wikipedia

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    The Townsville mutiny was a mutiny by African American servicemen of the United States Army while serving in Townsville, Australia, during World War II.. About 600 African American troops from the 96th Battalion, US Army Corps of Engineers, were stationed at a base outside of Townsville called Kelso Field.

  6. Nova Scotian Settlers - Wikipedia

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    The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson. [1] [2]The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were African Americans and African Nova Scotians or Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra ...

  7. Blackdom, New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Blackdom is a historic freedom colony in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States with a population of 300 at its height in 1908 that was founded by African-American settlers in 1901 and abandoned in the mid-1920s.

  8. List of African-American historic places - Wikipedia

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    The stories of the contributions, hardships, and aspirations of all American people can be seen in the experiences of African Americans at these physical locations. [2] The formal preservation of these sites dates back to at least 1917 according to architectural historian Brent Leggs when efforts to save the Gothic Revival home of abolitionist ...

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