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The Ashworth Act, was an act that was passed by the Texas Senate on December 12, 1840. It made the Ashworth Family as well as all free persons of color and emancipated slaves in the Republic of Texas exempt from a new law stipulating that all Black Texans either leave or risk being enslaved.
Glasrud, Bruce A. et al eds. African Americans in Central Texas History From Slavery to Civil Rights (2019); scholarly essays online; Glasrud, Bruce A. and James Smallwood, ed. The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology (2007) essays online; Glasrud, Bruce (March 2014). "Anti-Black Violence in 20th Century East Texas" (PDF).
This violent displacement disrupted traditional African family structures, creating a legacy of fragmented families and community ties that would shape the African American experience for centuries. As a result, the evolution of African American family structure must be understood in distinct periods, each reflecting the impact of slavery ...
The Southwestern Athletic Conference was created by the Texas Black Schools in 1920, allowing African Americans to play football and a range of other sports, which they were previously unable to access at the height of segregation in the US. The Southwestern Athletic Conference was known as one of the top African-American athletic conferences ...
As U.S. lawmakers commemorated the end of slavery by celebrating Juneteenth this month, many of them could have looked no further than their own family histories to find a more personal connection ...
The first Africans that lived in San Antonio were Afro-Mexicans when Texas was still a part of Mexico before the Mexican–American War. African slaves arrived in 1528 in Spanish Texas. [3] In 1792, there were 34 blacks and 414 mulattos in Spanish Texas. [4] Anglo white immigration into Mexican Texas in the 1820s brought an increased numbers of ...
It is quite convenient to have slavery-free African American presidents. No messy genealogy to get into. No spotlight on the practice of slavery in a particular Southern state.
Southern African-American Family on Porch. African American genealogy is a field of genealogy pertaining specifically to the African American population of the United States. . African American genealogists who document the families, family histories, and lineages of African Americans are faced with unique challenges owing to the slave practices of the Antebellum South and North.