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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Main Author: Naylor, Celia E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indianer > afro-amerikaner > Oklahoma.
Afro-amerikaner > slavar > Oklahoma.
Cherokeser > historia > Oklahoma.
Afro-Americain (peuple) > Cherokee (peuple) > esclavage > metissage > parente > Oklahoma (Etats-Unis) > 19e s. > 20e s. (debut)
Indian slaves.
Cherokee Indians > Mixed descent.
Cherokee Indians.
Black people > Relations with Indians.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Noirs americains > Parente > Oklahoma.
Noirs americains > Oklahoma.
Esclaves indiens d'Amerique > Oklahoma > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Cherokee (Indiens) > Parente.
Metis cherokee.
Cherokee (Indiens) > Oklahoma.
Cherokee (Indiens) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Black people > Oklahoma > Relations with Indians.
African Americans > Kinship > Oklahoma.
African Americans > Oklahoma.
Indian slaves > Oklahoma > History > 19th century.
Cherokee Indians > Kinship.
Cherokee Indians > Oklahoma.
Cherokee Indians > History > 19th century.
Oklahoma.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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