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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. American Indian law collection. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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 gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end of the nineteenth century, ongoing conflicts among Choctaw, Chickasaw, and U.S. lawmakers left untold numbers of former slaves and their descendants in the two Indian nations without citizenship in either the Indian nations or the United States. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of Southern slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native American slaveholders and the Black people they enslaved."--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | "This book was published with the assistance of the Fred W. Morrison Fund for Southern Studies of the University of North Carolina Press."--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 211 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-198) and index. |