“After emancipation, his family continued to live on the farm of the Boyer family, their former owners, and Boyer is proud of the fact that relationship between the White and Negro residents of that section of Georgia always has been good. There has never been a lynching within the borders of the county, he says.”
Las Cruces Sun-News, Sunday, March 30, 1947
Roswell Daily Record Tuesday, May 11, 1920
At the turn of the 20th Century, convinced that sovereignty was attainable, Frank Boyer employed his freedoms in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands. Blackdom’s success was his means to an end. Blackdomites exploited New Mexico’s frontier space because of the distance between racist New Mexicans and the law. Blackdomites were sovereignty seekers who promoted a “Negro Refuge,” but explicitly preferred farmers, mostly because city dwellers often lacked the cultural training. With “No Jim Crow Laws,” Blackdomites manifested sovereignty that included oil royalties as a buttress.
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