Overflow of Texas waters devastates freedmen farming lands
The article describes an unprecedented flood across Texas watercourses that damaged crops and fences, decimated houses and gardens, and left freedmen destitute. Many freedpeople work on sharecropping or rented land. most lack property or ownership and face starvation, illness, and exposure as aid efforts and relief payments are debated.
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