{"id":9520,"date":"2021-12-13T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arch.tamu.edu\/?p=9520"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:17:37","slug":"studying-the-freedom-that-followed-emancipation%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arch.tamu.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/13\/studying-the-freedom-that-followed-emancipation%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying the freedom that followed emancipation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Studying the freedom that followed emancipation\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DeaA2YIL3YA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 1865 and 1930, formerly enslaved people in Texas founded hundreds of self-sufficient communities that have come to be known as Texas Freedom Colonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, many freedom colonies are unmapped, unincorporated, and missing from \u2018mainstream\u2019 history, and firsthand knowledge of freedom colonies is at risk because their history is often shared by oral tradition, amen many descendants are passing away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrea Roberts, assistant professor of urban planning, is the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arch.tamu.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/01\/preserving-places\/\">Texas Freedom Colonies Project\u2122<\/a>, a research project dedicated to freedom colony history, planning, policy and preservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1865 and 1930, formerly enslaved people in Texas founded hundreds of self-sufficient communities that have come to be known as Texas Freedom Colonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":9206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93,61,63],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.12 (Yoast SEO v20.12) - 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