Freedmen's town

In the United States, a freedmen's town was an African American municipality or community built by freedmen, formerly enslaved people who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War. These towns emerged in a number of states, most notably Texas.[1] They are also known as freedom colonies, from the title of a book by Sitton and Conrad.[2]

  1. ^ "Emancipation means Migration!". Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
  2. ^ Sitton, Thad; Conrad, James H. (2010). Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow. University of Texas Press. p. 178. ISBN 9780292777811.