Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South Cover:Paperback Keisha Morris

Keisha Morris

New York Times bestselling team Joanna Ho and Dung Ho present Eyes That Speak to the Stars

• 2010 Medical Journalists¿ Association Open Book Award

But Ida’s greatest challenge arose after one of her friends was lynched

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South Cover:Paperback Keisha MorrisFrom the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end of