AfroFrontierism: Blackdom (1900 - 1930)
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#NegroColonyInNewMexico | North Adams [MA] Transcript, September 11, 1903

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Santa Fe., N. M., Sept. 11.--The Blackdom Townsite company has been incorporated here with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose of the company is to establish a colony of negroes from the Southern states in Chavez county. The name of town will be Blackdom.

North Adams Transcript | September 11, 1903 pg 1

North Adams Transcript | September 11, 1903 pg 3

North Adams Transcript | September 11, 1903 pg 3

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