Jill E. Rowe
Gebundenes Buch

Invisible in Plain Sight

Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest

Herausgegeben: Scott, Dulce Maria; Blayer, Irene Maria F.
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The Land Act of 1820 made it possible for settlers to begin to populate the West and added to the confiscation of land from Native Americans. Former landowners - a mix of Native American, African and European ancestry - migrated to the northern frontier and founded at least thirty well-defined free black communities between 1820 and 1850 in the Old Northwest, becoming an important safe haven and beacon of freedom.Its notoriety and size grew as slaves often migrated to these locations after they were granted emancipation in the wills of slave owners who purchased land in the area for them to se...