Southern Seed, Northern Soil
Subtitle: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: 2002
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780253213310
First sentence: IN THE WINTER OF 1828-1829, Willis Roberts was a man of mixed emotions.
Description: "Stephen Vincent captures the exceptional history of the Beech and Roberts settlements, two African-American and mixed-race farming communities formed on the Indiana frontier in the 1830s.

He analyzes the founders' backgrounds as a distinctive free people of color in the Old South; the migration that culminated in the communities' successful beginnings; the settlements' transformations through the pioneer and Civil War eras; and the increasing transition to commercial farming in the late nineteenth century." "Southern Seed, Northern Soil is based on source materials, including census manuscripts, land deeds, probate records, family letters, and newspapers."--BOOK JACKET.