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African Americans On The Western Frontier

Author: Billington, Monroe Lee; Joint Author: Hardaway, Roger D.
Paperback; Illustrated
University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0870816144

During the last half of the nineteenth century, several thousand African Americans moved to the American western frontier. Before the Civil War, some went west to California as slaves of gold miners and to Utah as slaves of Mormons. Later, free black men joined the U.S. Army and served in frontier outposts, while others were hired on as cowboys on western ranches and cattle trails. OnceReconstruction ended in the South, discrimination and segregation caused more African Americans to seek better opportunities where prejudice was less evident.The significant role played by AfricanAmericans in the settlement and development of the West has largely been ignored and neglected until now. African Americans on the Western Frontier remedies that historic neglect with fifteen essays t

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