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Black History: What the Record Does Not Carry

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The anchor is dug; the leg is not finished, and its unfinished parts are named. this section carries the Black History leg's township anchor at the depth the reached record allows. It does not carry, and does not pretend to: the whole course of Indiana's Black Laws and their working in this county (this section's own later pass, LK-7); the Underground Railroad branch pass, whose anchor on this ground is Palmer's Olive Branch mill and Dakin's account of it, pointed to above; the office Andrew Huggart ran for, which three carriers searched and none found — its settlers are the township caucus and election records of Union Township for the 1860s–70s; the year Samuel Huggart reached his land, bracketed 1835–1850 by the record as it stands; the marker's erector line; or any Black presence in the township after the settlement's dispersal beyond the sons' South Bend course the carriers give — the twentieth-century record of Black life in Union Township at the strength it deserves is the later pass's work, not this one's silence. The settlement as a community stands outside the histories; it was recovered not from them but from the census, the deed books, the gravestones, and the memory of neighbours' descendants.

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Source: Black History: What the Record Does Not Carry, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/black-history/what-this-section-does-not-carry/