The Garden of Eden [electronic resource] :the story of a freedman's community in Tarrant County Texas / Drew Sanders.
By: Sanders, Drew [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookPublisher: Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, 2015. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780875656243; 0875656242.Subject(s): African American neighborhoods -- Texas -- Fort Worth -- History | African American neighborhoods -- Texas -- Tarrant County -- History | Community life -- Texas -- Tarrant County -- History | African American families -- Texas -- Tarrant County -- History | Freedmen -- Texas -- Tarrant County -- Biography | African Americans -- Texas -- Tarrant County -- Biography | Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) -- Genealogy | Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) -- Biography | Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 305.896/0730764531 Online resources: Full text available:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 [family trees].
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