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Recently published scholarship by historian Dr. Timothy E. Nelson suggests Black folks intentionally used the legal and social system of separate-but-equal to their advantage. Dr. Nelson refers to as the Afro-Frontier®—immerse in a new history of the Borderlands. Rather than a story of ultimate failure, you will learn the ingenuity of a community that made use of a corporate veil to achieve sovereignty in the chaos of the borderlands at the turn of the twentieth century.