freedom colonies – ANDREA ROBERTS

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Sep 9, 2018admin_olgaUncategorizedafrican american, Black Feminism, Black Geographies, cultural landscape, diaspora, environmental justice, freedom colonies, heritage, historic preservation, racism, Shankleville, slavery, Southern Landscapes, Texas, womanism

PEER-REVIEWED Forthcoming Andrea Roberts, Valentina Aduen, Jennifer Blanks, Schuyler Carter, Kendall Girault, Digital Juneteenth: Territorializing the Freedom Colony Diaspora. (2022) Public Culture. Abstract: After Juneteenth, formerly enslaved African Americans in Texas founded hundreds of historic Black settlements known as freedom colonies. Later, freedom colonies’ populations dispersed, physical traces disappeared, and memories of locations vanished as…

Pelham, Texas’ “Guardians of Memory” in one of the State’s Last Active Freedom Colonies

Oct 24, 2013Andrea RobertsUncategorized12 years slave, black, critical, Dallas, ex-slaves, freedom colonies, heritage, history, navarro county, Pelham, rural, settlement, Tarrant, Texas, town

“At her kitchen table she pulls out an old map from the Navarro County Historical Society and traces her finger from one town name to the next, including several old black communities. “These communities don’t exist no more,” she says. “Babylon, no more. Bethel, no more. Round Prairie’s about gone. Porter’s Bluff, it’s gone.” From…

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Pelham, Texas’ “Guardians of Memory” in one of the State’s Last Active Freedom Colonies