A sketch of the life of Okah Tubbee
Subtitle: (called) William Chubbee, son of the head chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians
By: by Laah Ceil Manatoi Elaah Tubbee, his wife
Contributors: Tubbee, Laah Ceil Manatoi Elaah, 1817-; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Choctaw Indians; Biography; History; Slaves; Indians of North America; Social life and customs; Slavery
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Description: The text is preceded by an advertisement for an "evening's entertainment," describing a lecture and musical program by the Tubbee family.  The main narrative opens when Okah Tubbee is kidnapped as a young child and raised as a Negro slave.  He resists slavery all through his youth and gradually learns that he is Indian, and not a Negro slave by birth.  Through a chance meeting with a group of Choctaw Indians he realizes he is one of them and the rest of the narrative describes his reunion with them. Many descriptions of Choctaw customs and beliefs are interspersed throughout the text.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition has been transcribed from a microfilm copy supplied by Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.

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Transcribed from microfilm of: A sketch of the life of Okah Tubbee : (called) William Chubbee, son of the head chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians / by Laah Ceil Manatoi Elaah Tubbee, his wife. Toronto : printed for Okah Tubbee, by Henry Stephens, 1852. 96 p. ; 28 cm. "A true narrative, drawn up from his own lips." -- P. 15.

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