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The Garden of Eden
The Story of a Freedmen's Community in Texas
This book is available to read until 31st December, 2025
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub
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About this book
Tucked in a bend of the Trinity River a few minutes from downtown Fort Worth, the Garden of Eden neighborhood has endured for well over a century as a homeplace for freed African American slaves and their descendants.
Among the earliest inhabitants in the Garden, Major and Malinda Cheney assembled over 200 acres of productive farmland on which they raised crops and cattle, built a substantial home for their children, and weathered a series of family crises that ranged from a false accusation of rape and attempted lynching to the murder of their eldest son.
Major and Malinda Cheney’s great-great-grandson, Drew Sanders, recounts engaging tales of the family’s life against the backdrop of Fort Worth and Tarrant County history—among them stories about the famous family Sunday dinners (recipes included).
Though some family members, including writer Bob Ray Sanders and transplant specialist Dollie Gentry, no longer live in this special place, life in the Garden of Eden still shapes the family’s character and binds them to the homeplace.
Among the earliest inhabitants in the Garden, Major and Malinda Cheney assembled over 200 acres of productive farmland on which they raised crops and cattle, built a substantial home for their children, and weathered a series of family crises that ranged from a false accusation of rape and attempted lynching to the murder of their eldest son.
Major and Malinda Cheney’s great-great-grandson, Drew Sanders, recounts engaging tales of the family’s life against the backdrop of Fort Worth and Tarrant County history—among them stories about the famous family Sunday dinners (recipes included).
Though some family members, including writer Bob Ray Sanders and transplant specialist Dollie Gentry, no longer live in this special place, life in the Garden of Eden still shapes the family’s character and binds them to the homeplace.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Loyds and the Long Road to Texas
- 2. Navidad Nation: The Cheney Family in Lavaca County
- 3. Birdville: Setting the Stage for the Garden of Eden
- 4. Aunt Doll and the Sam Bass Stories: Major Cheney Comes of Age
- 5. Early Life in the Garden of Eden
- 6. Other African American Communities in Tarrant County and How They Relate to the Garden of Eden
- 7. The Cheney Children
- 8. Sand and Gravel
- 9. Unraveling: A New Generation and Depressing Times
- 10. Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do . . .
- 11. A New Generation of Sanderses
- 12. Rebuilding Community in the Twenty-first Century
- Appendix: Family Connections
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author