African Cherokees in Indian territory : from chattel to citizens /
Naylor, Celia E.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-341) and index.
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.
Cherokee Indians
Cherokee Indians
Cherokee Indians
Indian slaves
African Americans
African Americans
Blacks