Post-emancipation didn't mean leaving the plantation. When Freedmen registered to vote, they often reported their former enslaver's plantation as their place of residence.

Cato Jackson registered to vote 11-29-1869. From VA, he arrived in TX in 1812. Basic details about his life are missing. In 1866, as a Freeman, he moved to Fort Bend County, where in 1870, Jackson, 59, sharecropper, lived with Lydia Jackson, 69, from Maryland, who kept house. enslavedtexas.org

Have recorded 59% of the registered Freedmen in Texas as of this morning. Six years into this project and still as determined as ever to give them back their names. enslavedtexas.org Click the timeline on map to watch their forced migration. Each line is a person.

Working hard creating an interactive map of Texas that visualizes the forced migration of enslaved people into Texas from 1800 to 1865. Check us out at enslavedtexas.org We are about halfway in this initial stage, so visit us often for updates! debbie@enslavedtexas.org