Black slaves, Indian masters : slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the Native American south

"From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gend...

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Main Author: Krauthamer, Barbara, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013].
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Table of Contents:
  • Black slaves, Indian masters: race, gender, and power in the deep south
  • Enslaved people, missionaries, and slaveholders: christianity, colonialism, and struggles over slavery
  • Slave resistance, sectional crisis, and political factionalism in antebellum Indian territory
  • The Treaty of 1866: emancipation and the conflicts over Black people's citizenship rights and Indian nations' sovereignty
  • Freedmen's political organizing and the ongoing struggles over citizenship, sovereignty, and squatters
  • A new home in the west: allotment, race, and citizenship.