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I've Been Here All the While - Black Freedom on Native Land

English · Paperback / Softback

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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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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The First Settlers of Indian Territory

Chapter 2. Emancipation and Intervention

Chapter 3. Whose Racial Paradise?

Chapter 4. The Last Wave

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments


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Alaina E. Roberts

Product details

Authors Alaina E Roberts, Alaina E. Roberts
Publisher University of pennsylvania pr
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2023
 
EAN 9781512824728
ISBN 978-1-5128-2472-8
No. of pages 224
Series America in the Nineteenth Cent
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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