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Zusatztext "In crafting her argument, Miles draws skillfully on scholarly work in disciplines including history, anthropology, women's studies, and literature. She also taps a range of published and unpublished archival documents, such as missionary records and newspapers. In this way, she provides as complete a portrait as we are likely to get of a fascinating family and their place in American and Native American History." Informationen zum Autor Tiya Miles is Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story and The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts. Among other notable prizes and fellowships, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2011. Klappentext “In this lyrical narrative about Shoeboots, Doll, and their descendants, Tiya Miles explores the constant push and tug between family connections and racial divides. Building on meticulous and inspired historical detective work, Miles shows what it might have felt like to be a slave and reassesses the convoluted ideas about race that slavery generated and left as a legacy.”—Nancy Shoemaker, author of A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America “ Ties That Bind is a haunting and innovative book. Tiya Miles refuses to avoid or cover over the most painful aspects of the shared stories of Indians and African Americans. Instead, Miles passionately defends the need to explore history, even when the facts provided by history are not those that contemporary people want to hear.”—Peggy Pascoe, author of Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 "The book vividly conveys how precarious were the lives of Native and African people caught up in the whirlwind of slavery, colonialism, and discourses and practices of race."—David Chang, American Quarterly Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS SHOEBOOTS FAMILY TREE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE BONE OF MY BONE: SLAVERY! RACE! AND NATION-EAST 1. CAPTIVITY 2. SLAVERY 3. MOTHERHOOD 4. PROPERTY 5. CHRISTIANITY 6. NATIONHOOD 7. GOLD RUSH PART TWO OF BLOOD AND BONE: FREEDOM! KINSHIP! AND CITIZENSHIP-WEST 8. REMOVAL 9. CAPTURE 10. FREEDOM EPILOGUE: CITIZENSHIP CODA: THE SHOEBOOTS FAMILY TODAY APPENDIX 1. RESEARCH METHODS AND CHALLENGES APPENDIX 2. DEFINITION AND USE OF TERMS APPENDIX 3. CHEROKEE NAMES AND MISTAKEN IDENTITIES APPENDIX 4. PRIMARY SOURCES FOR FURTHER STUDY NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ...
