“There were 170 Negroes in New Mexico when Boyer arrived here. He says the Negro population now numbers 12,000. One thousand New Mexico Negroes are members of the Negro Masonic Lodge of which Boyer is the grand corresponding secretary.”

Las Cruces Sun-News, Sunday, March 30, 1947

#BlackColonizers’ from a 1519 project continued to evolve into a loose network of Black intellectuals, who by 1619, streamlined transformation from free to sovereign. Before “the Americas,” the Black Colonization Continuum included Moorish conquest of “Europe,” specifically “Spain.” The end of Moorish rule in Spain birthed new social technologies in an alchemical process that nurtured #BlackColonizers. Blackdom’s colonization model intersected with the American Revolution and liberation movements led by Bishop Richard Allen of the African Methodists Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, and Prince Hall of the African Masonic Lodges. Black illuminated peoples were forged in the fires of a unique American Alchemy building institutions to enlighten people under the condition of Blackness in the art of colonization. 

by Dr. Timothy E. Nelson©

Roswell Daily Record, Thursday, May 27, 1920 pg3

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Accession Nr:NM0220__.225 Document Type:State Volume Patent State:New Mexico Issue Date:7/18/1905 Cancelled:No

Like most of the Blackdom thirteen, Charles Childress, a resident of Roswell and mature in age when he invested in Blackdom. As a farmer in 1903, the investment affored an opportunity to improve his financial situation. His homestead was within a miles distance of the townsite company’s Vice President Isaac Jones homestead. Childress was the only member to file a homestead patent between September of the 1903 and May of 1904 in the afterglow of the Blackdom Townsite announcement. Childress built on his homestead and improved it enough to complete the final stage of the patent process in 1905. As Vice President of the Blackdom Townsite Company, Isaac Jones was the highest-ranking member to build a homestead before and during the inception of the Blackdom Townsite Company. Jones’ existence prior to the advent of the company was typical of Black people in the region. He was born in the South (North Carolina), and migrated to the Borderlands (Texas), where he married his wife Mollie. They had a child, and in the late 1890s, the Jones family moved to Chaves County and settled in Roswell. Living on Kentucky Avenue in Roswell in 1900, Jones was a cook while Mollie worked at home taking care of their six-year-old son. Isaac Jones began his homesteading process in April of 1903, but homesteading required significant investment of a few thousand dollars with no guarantee of success. Without significant cash reserves, Jones did not have any margin for error, building his homestead with his family in tow. Making a mistake in the choice of crops or any aspect of homesteading would lead to a yearlong march toward economic disaster with very little means of recovery. For several months, he made little progress on his homestead while still working in Roswell.

#Excerpt Dr. Timothy E. Nelson the Historian| The Significance of the Afro-Frontier in American History: Blackdom, Barratry, and Bawdyhouses in the Borderslands 1900-1930. 2015.

 

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Saturday, June 29, 1912, New York, New York

Saturday, June 29, 1912, New York, New York

“Residents Between Fifth and Lenox Avenues Protest. Signs which have recently been placed on the brownstone house at 63 West 130th Street, advertising that it will be leased to respectable negro tenants have been the means of arousing considerable agitation among the residents of that block.”

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#AFST250: #BlackdomRenaissance | #AHAperspectives / #WHA2020

Blackdomites advertises and Harold Coleman managed marketing.

In 1899, Dr. Julia Pearl Hughes opened her own drugstore at 937 Christian Street in South Philadelphia, called Hughes Pharmacy. On February 16, 1900, Dr. Hughes married James Harold Coleman, a traveling newspaper salesman from Virginia.  The couple moved to Newport News, Virginia, where the now Dr. Coleman opened another pharmacy. The couple also started another venue, the Columbia Chemical Company in 1909. The company was established to produce and market a hair care product called “Hair-Vim,” but they dissolved the business in just one year. In 1912, James Coleman got a job as a colonizer agent, helping to bring black settlers to a projected all black town in Chaves County, New Mexico called Blackdom, and he relocated there. Dr. Coleman moved to Washington, D.C. to stay with her relatives. By 1914, Dr. Hughes started a weekly newspaper with Timothy Thomas Fortune, called the Weekly Sun. She also returned to work on her hair care products and established the Hair Care-Vim Chemical Company in the basement of her family’s home. Dr. Coleman and her husband were divorced in 1916. The couple had no children.

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