Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest
by
Jill E. Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The Land Act of 1820 made it possible for settlers to begin to populate the West and added to the confiscation of land from Native Americans. Former landowners – a mix of Native American, African and European ancestry – migrated to the northern frontier and founded at least thirty well-defined...