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

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/SCHOLARSHIP (* denotes students) Forthcoming 2026-27 Book Roberts, A. Never Sell the Land! Freedom Colonies, Black Storytelling, and Keeping Home. In copy editing, the University of Texas Press (2026). Book Book Chapter Roberts, A. “The Black Parti: Reinterpreting African American Placemaking as Design Ideation,” Rewriting American Architecture, Edited by Charles L. Davis II, Kathryn…

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