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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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.