Title The Garden of Eden : the story of a freedmen's community in Texas / by Drew Sanders.

Publication Info.	Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2015]
	©2015

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 204 pages) : illustrations, maps
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193) and index.
Contents	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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Subject	African Americans -- Texas -- Tarrant County -- Biography.
	African Americans.
	Texas -- Tarrant County.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Freed persons -- Texas -- Tarrant County -- Biography.
	Freed persons.
	African American families -- Texas -- Tarrant County -- History.
	African American families.
	History.
	Community life -- Texas -- Tarrant County -- History.
	Community life.
	African American neighborhoods -- Texas -- Tarrant County -- History.
	African American neighborhoods.
	African American neighborhoods -- Texas -- Fort Worth -- History.
	Texas -- Fort Worth.
	Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) -- History.
	Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) -- Biography.
	Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) -- Genealogy.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Genealogy.
	History.
	Biographies.
	Family histories.
	Family histories.
Other Form:	Print version: 9780875656243
ISBN	0875656242 (e-book)
	9780875656243 (e-book)
	087565620X
	0875656250
	9780875656205

Title The Garden of Eden : the story of a freedmen's community in Texas / by Drew Sanders.

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