The Ante-Bellum Black Community in Michiana, October 1994

Description:	This paper was written by Terry Goldsworthy as a member of the African American Historic Sites Project Committee. The paper enumerates pre-Civil War Black settlement in St. Joseph County, Indiana, Cass County, Michigan, and Indiana, in general. It includes a review of Black settlement communities, employment fields open to Negroes, and percentages of Blacks born in Indiana.
Origin:	1994-10
Created By:	Goldsworthy, Terry
Contributor(s):	African American Historic Sites Project Committee
Source:	http://michianamemory.sjcpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16827coll4/id/3000
Collection:	Civil Rights and African American History
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Subjects:	African Americans--Indiana African Americans--Michigan Indiana--History

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