The Ground on Which I Stand : Tamina, a Freedmen's Town /

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One of the last remaining freedmen's towns in the United States ... In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community of Tamina--then called "Tammany"--North of Houston, near the rich timberlands of Montgomery County. Located in proximity to the just-completed Houston and Great No...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Corn, Marti (Autor)
Otros Autores: Karner, Tracy X., 1959- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
African Americans.
African American families.
African American families > Texas > Tamina.
African Americans > Texas > Tamina > History > Pictorial works.
African Americans > Texas > Tamina > History > Interviews.
African Americans > Texas > Tamina > Pictorial works.
African Americans > Texas > Tamina > History.
African Americans > Texas > Tamina > Interviews.
African American families > Texas > Tamina > History.
African American families > Texas > Tamina > Pictorial works.
Tamina (Tex.) > History.
Tamina (Tex.) > Pictorial works.
Histoires orales.
Oral histories.
Pictorial works.
Interviews.
History.
oral histories (literary works)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series editor's foreword / by M. Hunter Hayes
  • Foreword: storied lives / by Tracy Xavia Karner
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Freedmen's settlements / by Thad Sitton
  • The landscape
  • The Chevalier family
  • The Schuster family
  • The Elmore family
  • The Rhodes family
  • The Falvey family
  • Reverend Roger Leveston and the faith of Tamina
  • The Grimes family
  • The Jones family
  • The Brown family
  • The Durst family
  • The Robinson family
  • The Pitts family
  • The faces of Tamina
  • Grave stomping
  • Poverty: caught in a trap / by Wanda Horton-Woodworth
  • Entrusting voices to history / by Tacey A. Rosolowski
  • Afterword
  • Appendix: Tamina timeline.

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