African Cherokees in Indian Territory : From Chattel to Citizens /
Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences of enslaved and free...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2008]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On the run in antebellum Indian territory
- Day-to-day resistance to the peculiar institution and the struggle to remain free in the antebellum Cherokee nation
- Conceptualizing and constructing African Indian racial and cultural identities in antebellum Indian territory
- Trapped in the turmoil : a divided Cherokee nation and the plight of enslaved African Cherokees during the Civil War era
- Cherokee freedpeople's struggle for recognition and rights during reconstruction
- Contested common ground : landownership, race politics, and segregation on the eve of statehood.