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The Garden of Eden : the story of a freedman's community in Texas /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanders, Drew, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Fort Worth : TCU Press, [2015].
Subjects:
African Americans > Texas > Tarrant County > Biography.
Freedmen > Texas > Tarrant County > Biography.
African American families > Texas > Tarrant County > History.
Community life > Texas > Tarrant County > History.
African American neighborhoods > Texas > Tarrant County > History.
African American neighborhoods > Texas > Fort Worth > History.
Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) > History.
Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) > Biography.
Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) > Genealogy.
Table of Contents:
  • The Loyds and the long road to Texas
  • Navidad Nation: the Cheney family in Lavaca County
  • Birdville: setting the stage for the Garden of Eden
  • Aunt Doll and the Sam Bass stories: Major Cheney comes of age
  • Early life in the Garden of Eden
  • Other African American communities in Tarrant County and how they relate to the Garden of Eden
  • The Cheney children
  • Sand and gravel
  • Unraveling: a new generation and depressing times
  • Use it up, wear it out, make it do
  • A new generation of Sanderses
  • Rebuilding community in the twenty-first century
  • Appendix: Family connections.