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Title: Free Land and Black Property Ownership

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: During the 1890s, Cherokee cattleman Zack Foreman struck a deal with the Kansas City Southern Railroad. If Foreman would prepare the roadbed, they would lay the steel. With large cattle herds and his own rail line, Foreman became one of the wealthiest men in Indian Territory.1 His wealth was exceptional because he had been born a slave. 2 Since emancipation, the wealth of former slaves and their descendents has greatly lagged behind that of whites. Higgs (1982; 1977) found that black total property holdings were just 1/36 those of whites . . .

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Authors: Miller, Melinda

Publisher: U.S. Naval Academy and Yale University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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