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Description: Black Boom Towns
Blackdom, New Mexico
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Blackdom is a historic freedom colony[2] in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States with a population of 300 at its height in 1908[2] that was founded by African-American settlers in 1901 and abandoned in the mid-1920s.
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List of freedmen's towns
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AÂ historically African-American municipality, known in various areas as "freedmen's town", "freedom towns", or "all-Black towns", are municipalities which were established by or for a predominantly African-American populace.[1]Â Many of these municipalities were established or populated by freed s...