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The compelling account of how two heritages united in their
struggle to gain freedom and equality in America--now updated with
new content
The first paths to freedom taken by runaway slaves led to Native
American villages. There, black men and women found acceptance and
friendship among our country's original inhabitants. Though they
seldom appear in textbooks and movies, the children of Native- and
African-American marriages helped shape the early days of the fur
trade, added a new dimension to frontier diplomacy, and made a
daring contribution to the fight for American liberty.
Since its original publication, William Loren Katz's "Black
Indians" has remained the definitive work on a long, arduous quest
for freedom and equality. This new edition features a new cover and
includes updated information about a neglected chapter in American
history.
This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new
photographs—many never before seen—as well as revised and
expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role
played by African American men and women on America's early
frontiers. This revised volume includes an exciting new chapter on
the Civil War and the experiences of African Americans on the
western frontier. Among its fascinating accounts are those
explaining how thousands of enslaved people in Arkansas, Missouri
and Texas successfully escaped into the neighboring Indian
Territory in Oklahoma. These runaways inspired the idea eventually
adopted as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves within
the states that were in rebellion. Inspired by a conversation that
William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West
presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers like Nat Love,
a.k.a. Deadwood Dick;Â Mary Fields, a.k.a. Stagecoach
Mary; Cranford Goldsby, a.k.a. Cherokee Bill—and a host of
other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness
alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo.Â
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