African Cherokees in Indian territory
Subtitle: from chattel to citizens
By: Celia E. Naylor.
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780807832035; 9780807858837
Subjects: Cherokee Indians -- History -- 19th century; Cherokee Indians -- Mixed descent; Cherokee Indians -- Kinship; Indian slaves -- Oklahoma -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Oklahoma; African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Kinship; Blacks -- Oklahoma -- Relations with Indians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-341) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the run in antebellum Indian territory; title: Day-to-day resistance to the peculiar institution and the struggle to remain free in the antebellum Cherokee nation; title: Conceptualizing and constructing African Indian racial and cultural identities in antebellum Indian territory; title: Trapped in the turmoil : a divided Cherokee nation and the plight of enslaved African Cherokees during the Civil War era; title: Cherokee freedpeople's struggle for recognition and rights during reconstruction; title: Contested common ground : landownership, race politics, and segregation on the eve of statehood.