Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American
history than that of "40 acres and a mule"-the lost promise of
Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been
Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received
this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land,
and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In
nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story
unfolds that ties African American and Native American history
tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and
Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and
Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and
whites from the eastern United States fought military and
rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from
others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land
seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts
draws on archival research and family history to upend the
traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about
Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion
onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed
ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the
West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people
could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political
rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.
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