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  2. List of freedmen's towns - Wikipedia

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    Chief among them was Edward P. McCabe, who envisioned so large a number of African-Americans settling in the territory that it would become a Black-governed state. In Texas, 357 such "freedom colonies" have been located and verified.

  3. Piedras Negras, Coahuila - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Region of Coahuila has approximately 300,000 inhabitants. According to the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Data Processing (INEGI), in 2005 the population of the municipio of Piedras Negras was 143,915 inhabitants, equal to 5.77% of the population of Coahuila. 17% of the population of Piedras Negras came from other states, 3% were foreigners, and the rest were born ...

  4. History of African Americans in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Alonzo, Armando C. Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734–1900 (1998) Barr, Alwyn. Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995 (1996) online; Barr, Alwyn. Black cowboys of Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2000) online. Barr, Alwyn. "Black Urban Churches on the Southern Frontier, 1865-1900."

  5. Mascogos - Wikipedia

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    In May 2017, the Governor of Coahuila Rubén Moreira Valdez signed a decree that recognized the tribu de los negros mascogos as a "pueblo indígena de Coahuila". [1] He said that he hopes the Mascogos can begin receiving funds from the Instituto Nacional de Pueblos Indígenas by 2018. [ 1 ]

  6. Black Seminoles - Wikipedia

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    The black Seminole culture that took shape after 1800 was a dynamic mixture of African, Native American, Spanish, and slave traditions. Adopting certain practices of the Native Americans, maroons wore Seminole clothing and ate the same foodstuffs prepared the same way: they gathered the roots of a native plant called coontie, grinding, soaking, and straining them to make a starchy flour ...

  7. Gonzales, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Gonzales is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, with a population of 7,165 at the 2020 census. [6] It is the county seat of Gonzales County. [7] The "Come and Take It" incident, the ride of the Immortal 32 into the Alamo, and the Runaway Scrape after the fall of the Alamo, all integral events in the War for Texas Independence from Mexico, originated in Gonzales.

  8. History of African Americans in Houston - Wikipedia

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    Emancipation Park, with a space of 500,000 square feet (46,000 m 2), is located in the Third Ward and is a popular destination for annual Juneteenth celebrations. [99] [100] The State of Texas made Juneteenth a holiday at the state level after Al Edwards, a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Houston, proposed it as a bill. [101]

  9. Afro–Latin Americans - Wikipedia

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    Today there are very few people who identified themselves as Afro-Chileans, at the most, fewer than 0.001% can be estimated from the 2006 population. In 1984, a study called Sociogenetic Reference Framework for Public Health Studies in Chile , from the Revista de Pediatría de Chile determined an ancestry of 67.9% European, and 32.1% Native ...