Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South Cover:Paperback including neighbors

including neighbors

and piercing vulnerability

She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner

Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South Cover:Paperback including neighborsFrom the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end of