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The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black
people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877
and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They exercised their rights
under the Homestead Act to gain title to 650,000 acres, settling in
all of the Great Plains states. Some created Black homesteader
communities such as Nicodemus, Kansas, and DeWitty, Nebraska, while
others, including George Washington Carver and Oscar Micheaux,
homesteaded alone. All sought a place where they could rise by
their own talents and toil, unencumbered by Black codes,
repression, and violence. In the words of one Nicodemus descendant,
they found “a place they could experience real freedom,†though
in a racist society that freedom could never be complete. Their
quest foreshadowed the epic movement of Black people out of the
South known as the Great Migration. In this first account of the
full scope of Black homesteading in the Great Plains, Richard
Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld weave together two distinct strands:
the narrative histories of the six most important Black homesteader
communities and the several themes that characterize
homesteaders’ shared experiences. Using homestead records,
diaries and letters, interviews with homesteaders’ descendants,
and other sources, Edwards and Friefeld illuminate the
homesteaders’ fierce determination to find freedom—and their
greatest achievements and struggles for full equality. Â
Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of
homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox
scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity
between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part
of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and
dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data
and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the
current interpretation's four principal tenets: Homesteading was a
minor factor in farm formation, with most western farmers
purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove their
claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and
fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using
data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth
century, Homesteading the Plains demonstrates that the first three
tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the
public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than
the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plains provides
the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly
different from the current scholarly orthodoxy.
Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of
homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox
scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity
between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part
of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and
dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data
and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the
current interpretation's four principal tenets: Homesteading was a
minor factor in farm formation, with most western farmers
purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove their
claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and
fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using
data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth
century, Homesteading the Plains demonstrates that the first three
tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the
public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than
the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plains provides
the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly
different from the current scholarly orthodoxy.
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