Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South PDF
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Black Slaves, Indian Masters This page intentionally left blank barbara krauthamer Black Slaves, Indian Masters Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South the university of north carolina press chapel hill This book was published with the assistance of the Fred W. Morrison Fund for Southern Studies of the University of North Carolina Press. © 2013 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Minion and The Serif by codeMantra Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Krauthamer, Barbara, 1967– Black slaves, Indian masters : slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the Native American south / Barbara Krauthamer. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-4696-0710-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. African Americans—Relations with Indians. 2. Slavery—United States—History. 3. Choctaw Indians—History. 4. Chickasaw Indians—History. 5. Slaveholders— United States—History. 6. United States—Race relations. I. Title. e98.r28k73 2013 305.800973—dc23 2013004070 17 16 15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1 To Noah, Max, and Zora This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 one Black Slaves, Indian Masters Race, Gender, and Power in the Deep South 17 two Enslaved People, Missionaries, and Slaveholders Christianity, Colonialism, and Struggles over Slavery 46 three Slave Resistance, Sectional Crisis, and Political Factionalism in Antebellum Indian Territory 7 7 four The Treaty of 1866 Emancipation and the Confl icts over Black People’s Citizenship Rights and Indian Nations’ Sovereignty 101 five Freedmen’s Political Organizing and the Ongoing Struggles over Citizenship, Sovereignty, and Squatters 119 six A New Home in the West Allotment, Race, and Citizenship 139 Conclusion 153 Notes 155 Bibliography 181 Index 199 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, speaker of the National Council of the Choctaw Nation and Choctaw delegate to the government of the United States 3 1 Malmaison, Mississippi plantation home of Choctaw Greenwood Lefl ore 4 1 Map of Choctaw and Chickasaw territory in Mississippi 5 1 Wood fence rails made by Chief Lefl ore’s slaves near Wheelock Church 6 8 Ed Bailey, formerly a slave of Robert M. Jones, Choctaw Nation 79 Riverside, the home of Benjamin Franklin Colbert at Colbert’s Ferry, south of Colbert on the Red River 81 Map of Choctaw and Chickasaw territory in Indian Territory, 1855 94 Map of Choctaw Nation, 1866 1 02 Ann Mickle and B. F. Kemp’s former slave in a buggy 1 27 Chickasaw freedmen fi ling for allotments, Tishomingo, Oklahoma 148 Martha Jackson at her home near Fort Towson, Oklahoma 151
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