Introduction
...A story of freedom, land ownership, and coalescence not often heard of in the south after African American slavery …
Online Exhibit: Emory University's Symposium on Slavery & Dispossession
Gordon Chapel, unincorporated community of Hawthorne, Florida, Alachua County.
...A story of freedom, land ownership, and coalescence not often heard of in the south after African American slavery …
Gordon Chapel is named after the church established at the center of its settlement …
Free and enslaved African Americans were in Florida long before the start of the American Civil War …
Gordon Chapel, Hawthorne, Florida. Yesterday and today. …
Continue readingThe Land: Images of Gordon Chapel, Hawthorne
The documents tell the story.
The documents write the history …
Tillman Gordon’s Civil War records & Elizabeth Gordon’s Civil War widow’s pension file …