Deep Roots: Texas Set — Vols. 1–3 (Interactive Editions)

The Texas half of Deep Roots, in one set — three Interactive Editions, each with the full text, recorded narration by Marcus, a chronological timeline, and a 10-question educator quiz.

Vol. 1 — Free at Last in Texas: Juneteenth and the Freedom Colonies. The two-and-a-half-year delay; General Orders No. 3 read line by line; the $800 Emancipation Park deed of 1872; the freedom colonies counted honestly — 557 recorded place names, 357 verified and mapped; and Juneteenth's road from Reedy Chapel to a federal holiday. Narration 59:51.

Vol. 2 — Towns They Built: Freedmen's Towns of Texas. Independence Heights, incorporated 1915 and dissolved by its own residents' vote in 1928; Freedmen's Town's self-paved streets; Deep Ellum and the North Dallas Freedman's Town kept distinct; St. John Colony; Clarksville's open founding question; Kendleton and Terry v. Adams (1953). Narration ≈75 minutes.

Vol. 3 — Black Houston: The City Within the City. Jack Yates and Antioch, all three founding accounts side by side; Sweatt v. Painter in the Supreme Court's own numbers; Texas Southern University's 1947 founding; Christia Adair, quoted zero times because no authenticated words survive; Barbara Jordan verbatim from the National Archives; the 1960 sit-ins. Narration ≈70 minutes.

Every chapter in every volume closes with its sources and a method note. Over three hours of narration, 19 chapters, one state — told from the ground it happened on.

Two states. One story. All receipts.