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Black Americans and Covered Wagons

ANNETTE TELLS TALES: Two Short Stories Adapted from "Sweet Freedom's Plains", A Book That Changes What We Thought We Knew About the West

Annette Laing
Nov 19, 2021
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You saw an old Western or two. Who do you imagine traveling with this wagon? Think again. Image: Annette Laing, 2019

I am delighted to share with you my short post based on two stories from Dr. Shirley Ann Wilson Moore’s fascinating Sweet Freedom’s Plains: African-Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841-1869. UPDATE: I added the first section below (The P…

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