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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.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Subjects and Genres:
1800-1899
1800-talet.
Cherokee Indians > History > 19th century.
Cherokee Indians > Oklahoma.
Cherokee Indians > Mixed descent.
Cherokee Indians > Kinship.
Enslaved Indians > Oklahoma > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Oklahoma.
African Americans > Kinship > Oklahoma.
Black people > Oklahoma > Relations with Indians.
Cherokee (Indiens) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Cherokee (Indiens) > Oklahoma.
Métis cherokee.
Cherokee (Indiens) > Parenté.
Esclaves indiens d'Amérique > Oklahoma > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Oklahoma.
Noirs américains > Parenté > Oklahoma.
African Americans.
Black people > Relations with Indians.
Cherokee Indians.
Enslaved Indians.
Afro-Américain (peuple) > Cherokee (peuple) > esclavage > métissage > parenté > Oklahoma (Etats-Unis) > 19e s. > 20e s. (début)
Cherokeser > historia > Oklahoma.
Afro-amerikaner > slavar > Oklahoma.
Indianer > afro-amerikaner > Oklahoma.
Oklahoma.
History.
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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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