Black farmers in texas Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/black-farmers-in-texas/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 03:28:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-logo-32x32.png Black farmers in texas Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/black-farmers-in-texas/ 32 32 Black Farmers in Texas Part II https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/black-farmers-in-texas-part-2/ Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:40:22 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1232 by Benjamin Brown When the guns of the American Civil War fell silent in May of 1865, a precarious peace settled over the United States. Ruined plantations littered the South. Millions of emancipated slaves were suddenly under federal protection. Abraham Lincoln’s party took the White House under a philosophy which celebrated the sanctity of free, dignified labor, and the forceful […]

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