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==Research Strategy== | ==Research Strategy== | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
'''Slavery''' | '''Slavery''' | ||
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'''All Black Towns of Oklahoma'''<br> | '''All Black Towns of Oklahoma'''<br> | ||
More than 50 African-American towns were established between the 1865 and 1920. Many of the towns were formerly held by one of the [[Five Civilized Tribes|Five Civilized Tribes]]. | More than 50 African-American towns were established between the 1865 and 1920. Many of the towns were formerly held by one of the [[Five Civilized Tribes|Five Civilized Tribes]]. | ||
*Towns: Boley, Clearview, Grayson, Langston, Lincoln, Redbird, Rentiesville, Taft, Tatums, Tullahassee, Vernon and Wewoka. | |||
*Extinct Towns: Bailey, Bookertee, Canadian Colored, Chase, Ferguson, Gibson Station, Liberty, Marshall Town, North Fork, Wellston Colony and Wybark. | |||
''' | '''Online Resources''' | ||
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR016.html Freedmen] | |||
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AL009.html Freedmen Towns] | |||
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140701110414/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AF003.html Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture: African Americans] | |||
[http://www. | *[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/T/TE009.html Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture: Tenant Farming and Sharecropping] | ||
*[http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/war.crimes/US/Homestead.Act.htm The Homestead Act] | |||
**[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~swokla/custer/homested.html Oklahoma Homesteader Records] | |||
**[http://thislandpress.com/06/05/2010/oklahomas-all-black-towns/ Oklahoma's All-Black Towns]<br> | |||
**[http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aaw/langston-city-herald Langston City Herald] - promoted African American homesteading in the Oklahoma Territory | |||
'''Books to read''' | |||
*McPherson, James M. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/atlas-of-the-civil-war/oclc/318999229 ''The atlas of the Civil War'']. New York: Macmillan, 1994. | |||
*Blattner, Teresa, ''People of Color: Black Genealogical Records and Abstracts from Missouri Sources" (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, c1993,c 1998) {{WorldCat|29334936|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}};{{FHL|597154|item|disp=FHL Book 977.8 F2bt volume 1 and 2}}'' | *Blattner, Teresa, ''People of Color: Black Genealogical Records and Abstracts from Missouri Sources" (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, c1993,c 1998) {{WorldCat|29334936|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}};{{FHL|597154|item|disp=FHL Book 977.8 F2bt volume 1 and 2}}'' | ||
*Brown, William Wells, ''Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave'' (NY, NY: Johnson Reprint, 1970) {{WorldCat|457165953|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|45483|item|disp=FHL book 921.73 B815b}} | *Brown, William Wells, ''Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave'' (NY, NY: Johnson Reprint, 1970) {{WorldCat|457165953|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|45483|item|disp=FHL book 921.73 B815b}} | ||
*Mallory, Rudena Kramer, ''Claims by Missourians for compensation of enlisted slaves: records of the U.S. District Court of Kansas, Slave Compensation Records, November 3, 1866 to February 21, 1867, Record Group 21, National Archives-Central Plains Region, Kansas City, Missouri'' (SLC, Utah:Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992) {{FHL|551311|item|disp=FHL film 1597959 item 4}} | *Mallory, Rudena Kramer, ''Claims by Missourians for compensation of enlisted slaves: records of the U.S. District Court of Kansas, Slave Compensation Records, November 3, 1866 to February 21, 1867, Record Group 21, National Archives-Central Plains Region, Kansas City, Missouri'' (SLC, Utah:Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992) {{FHL|551311|item|disp=FHL film 1597959 item 4}} | ||
*Lee, George R., ''Slavery North of St. Louis'' (Canton, Missouri: Lewis County Historical Society, Missouri, [200?]) {{WorldCat|44094812|disp=At other libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|1483403|item|disp=FHL book 977.8 H6L}} | *Lee, George R., ''Slavery North of St. Louis'' (Canton, Missouri: Lewis County Historical Society, Missouri, [200?]) {{WorldCat|44094812|disp=At other libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|1483403|item|disp=FHL book 977.8 H6L}} | ||
*''State Slavery Statues'' (Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, c1989) {{FHL|723107|item|disp=FHL fiche 6118911}} | *''State Slavery Statues'' (Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, c1989) {{FHL|723107|item|disp=FHL fiche 6118911}} | ||
*United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands and Washington Reginald, ''Records of the field offices for the state of Missouri, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1972: NARA, RG 105, M1908'' (College Park, MD: NARA, 2004) {{FHL|1461239|item|disp=FHL films 2426982–2427005}} | *United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands and Washington Reginald, ''Records of the field offices for the state of Missouri, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1972: NARA, RG 105, M1908'' (College Park, MD: NARA, 2004) {{FHL|1461239|item|disp=FHL films 2426982–2427005}} | ||