Ties that bind : the story of an Afro-Cherokee family in slavery and freedom / Tiya Miles.
By: Miles, Tiya
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BookSeries: American crossroads: 14.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005Description: xix, 306 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0520241320 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780520250024 (pbk.).Subject(s): Cherokee Indians -- History -- 19th century | Cherokee Indians -- Mixed descent | Cherokee Indians -- Kinship | Indian slaves -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century | African Americans -- Mixed descent -- Georgia | African Americans -- Kinship -- Georgia | Blacks -- Georgia -- Relations with IndiansDDC classification: 929/.2/0890597557096073 Online resources: Table of contents Review: "This book tells the saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee war hero and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together not only as master and slave, and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, experienced key events in American history - including slavery, the Creek War, the founding of the Cherokee Nation and subsequent removal of Native Americans along the Trail of Tears, and the Civil War." "Ties That Bind vividly portrays the members of the Shoeboots family. Doll emerges as an especially poignant character, whose life is known primarily through the records of things inflicted on her - her purchase, her marriage, the loss of her children - but also through her moving petition to the federal government for the pension owed to her as Shoe Boots's widow. In this sensitive rendition of the hard realities of black slavery within Native American nations, Tiya Miles explores the interplay of race, power, and intimacy in the nation's early days. Ties That Bind provides the fullest picture we have of the myriad complexities, ironies, and tensions among African Americans, Native Americans, and whites in the first half of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-291) and index.
"This book tells the saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee war hero and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together not only as master and slave, and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, experienced key events in American history - including slavery, the Creek War, the founding of the Cherokee Nation and subsequent removal of Native Americans along the Trail of Tears, and the Civil War." "Ties That Bind vividly portrays the members of the Shoeboots family. Doll emerges as an especially poignant character, whose life is known primarily through the records of things inflicted on her - her purchase, her marriage, the loss of her children - but also through her moving petition to the federal government for the pension owed to her as Shoe Boots's widow. In this sensitive rendition of the hard realities of black slavery within Native American nations, Tiya Miles explores the interplay of race, power, and intimacy in the nation's early days. Ties That Bind provides the fullest picture we have of the myriad complexities, ironies, and tensions among African Americans, Native Americans, and whites in the first half of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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