I've Been Here All the While - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I've Been Here All the While write by Alaina E. Roberts. This book was released on 2021-03-12. I've Been Here All the While available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Sending My Heart Back Across the Years
Sending My Heart Back Across the Years - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sending My Heart Back Across the Years write by Hertha Dawn Wong. This book was released on 1992-03-12. Sending My Heart Back Across the Years available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using contemporary autobiography theory and literary, historical, and ethnographic approaches, Wong explores the transformation of Native American autobiography from pre-contact oral and pictographic personal narratives through late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century life histories to written contemporary autobiographies. This book expands the definition of autobiography to include non-written forms of personal narrative and non-Western concepts of self, highlighting the incorporation of traditional tribal modes of self-narration with Western forms of autobiography and charting the historical transition from orality to literacy.
I've Been Here All the While
I've Been Here All the While - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I've Been Here All the While write by Alaina E. Roberts. This book was released on 2021-04-05. I've Been Here All the While available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction.
IndiVisible
IndiVisible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook IndiVisible write by Gabrielle Tayac. This book was released on 2009-10-26. IndiVisible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the intersection of Native-American and African-American history, discussing how the two groups have influenced one another, what conflicts they have faced, and how they came together despite slavery, dispossession, racism, and other obstacles.
Black Walden
Black Walden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Walden write by Elise Lemire. This book was released on 2011-08-24. Black Walden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores of Walden Pond. Between the Revolution and the settlement of the little cabin with the bean rows, however, Walden Woods was home to several generations of freed slaves and their children. Living on the fringes of society, they attempted to pursue lives of freedom, promised by the rhetoric of the Revolution, and yet withheld by the practice of racism. Thoreau was all but alone in his attempt "to conjure up the former occupants of these woods." Other than the chapter he devoted to them in Walden, the history of slavery in Concord has been all but forgotten. In Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, Elise Lemire brings to life the former slaves of Walden Woods and the men and women who held them in bondage during the eighteenth century. After charting the rise of Concord slaveholder John Cuming, Black Walden follows the struggles of Cuming's slave, Brister, as he attempts to build a life for himself after thirty-five years of enslavement. Brister Freeman, as he came to call himself, and other of the town's slaves were able to leverage the political tensions that fueled the American Revolution and force their owners into relinquishing them. Once emancipated, however, the former slaves were permitted to squat on only the most remote and infertile places. Walden Woods was one of them. Here, Freeman and his neighbors farmed, spun linen, made baskets, told fortunes, and otherwise tried to survive in spite of poverty and harassment. With a new preface that reflects on community developments since the hardcover's publication, Black Walden reminds us that this was a black space before it was an internationally known green space and preserves the legacy of the people who strove against all odds to overcome slavery and segregation.
