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Choctaw Confederates : the American Civil War in Indian Country /

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When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people, the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, fourteen percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved Blacks. Avid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yarbrough, Fay A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021].
Subjects:
Treaty of friendship & alliance > (1861 July 12)
Choctaw Indians > Indian Territory > History.
Slavery > Indian Territory > History.
Choctaw Indians > Government relations > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, Indian.
Indian Territory > Race relations > History.

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