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Ties That Bind - The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Ties That Bind - The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: American Crossroads
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This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the
haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the
story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior 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 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. This is the gripping story
of their lives, in slavery and in freedom. Meticulously crafted
from historical and literary sources, Ties That Bind vividly
portrays the members of the Shoeboots family. Doll emerges as an
especially poignant character, whose life is mostly known through
the records of things done to 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. A
sensitive rendition of the hard realities of black slavery within
Native American nations, the book 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. Updated with a new preface and an
appendix of key primary sources, this remains an essential book for
students of Native American history, African American history, and
the history of race and ethnicity in the United States.
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