Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom / Edition 1

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"This book tells the saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee war hero 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 not only as master and slave, and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, experienced key events in American history - including slavery, the Creek War, the founding of the Cherokee Nation and subsequent removal of Native Americans along the Trail of Tears, and the Civil War." Ties That Bind vividly portrays the members of the Shoeboots family. Doll emerges as an especially poignant character, whose life is known primarily through the records of things inflicted on her - her purchase, her marriage, the loss of her children - but also through her moving petition to the federal government for the pension owed to her as Shoe Boots's widow. In this sensitive rendition of the hard realities of black slavery within Native American nations, Tiya Miles explores the interplay of race, power, and intimacy in the nation's early days. Ties That Bind provides the fullest picture we have of the myriad complexities, ironies, and tensions among African Americans, Native Americans, and whites in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Along with a fascinating biography, this book offers an utterly original angle on American history itself.—New Haven Review
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780520250024
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication date: 8/7/2006
  • Series: American Crossroads Series
  • Edition description: 1ST
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 327
  • Sales rank: 410,931
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.88 (d)

Meet the Author

Tiya Miles is Assistant Professor in the Program in American Culture, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies Program at the University of Michigan.

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Shoeboots Family Tree Preface 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 Notes Selected Bibliography
Index

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2005

    Missing Link Found

    It pays to surf genealogy resources and can find the books online. I read the excerpts that were available and was pleasantly surprised to find some genealogy help and it was in this book. I am a direct decendent of the Stephens' who decended from the Shoe Boots. I can now document my Afro-Cherokee connection, linking me to my missing heritage.

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