AfroFrontierism: Blackdom (1900 - 1930)
Timothy E. Nelson, Ph.D., Historian

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Most recently published articles (at the top) - Celebrating the Blackdom Centennial

#BlackdomOilCompany, "Will Pool Acreage." | #RoswellDailyRecord Wednesday, December 31, 1919

#Blackademia

Will Pool Acreage

The Blackdom people are making final arrangements to pool their land and when it is all in they expect to have in excess of 10,000 acres. This land is to be put in a Roswell bank and kept there until some drilling company comes along with an acceptable proposition. The reports on the street that the National Exploration Co. had secured this land and were preparing to block it with their Orchard Park holdings are without foundation.

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#FrontierAlchemy "Negroes Plead Guilty" | Roswell Daily Record, December 27, 1921

#Blackademia | #FrontierAlchemy

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#BlackColonizer | Roswell Daily Record, May 27, 1920

“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

Roswell Daily Record, Thursday, May 27, 1920 pg3

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#NegroColony "Are Founding Negro Colony" | Eastern Blizzard Saturday, Corona, California December 24, 1904
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#HōmstedClass Wedie Herron | [TWP 14S - RNG 24E / SEC 11] December 20, 1920
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#NegroColony "Negro Lose Thousands..." | Blytheville Courier News, December 20, 1935
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Available in X-Small, Small, Medium, Large and XL