| The American Indian As Slaveholder And Secessionist: An Omitted Chapter In The Diplomatic History Of The Southern Confederacy (1915) Contributor(s): Abel, Annie Heloise (Author) |
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ISBN: 0548655022 ISBN-13: 9780548655023 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Native American |
| Dewey: 973.049 |
| Lexile Measure: 1540 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Topical - Civil War - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: " Abel's] story is a tragic one, but leaving it untold would be a greater tragedy. Native American southerners shared the experience of the Civil War with other Americans, and their involvement in that upheaval had as profound an effect on their subsequent history. Abel's was the first serious telling of that story."--Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green. The secession of southern states in the winter and spring of 1861-62 brought about a crisis for the Five Civilzed Tribes living in present-day Oklahoma, or Indian Territory. Forced out of the South thirty years earlier and relocated there, the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles had maintained a relationship with the United States through treaties and resident agents. Now the civil war that threatened the Union also called into question its relationship with the southern Indians, an influential minority of whom owned black slaves. In this volume, originally published in 1915 as the first of a trilogy on slaveholding Indians, Annie Heloise Abel explores the diplomatic manuevers of the Confederacy to secure alliances with these five Indian nations.
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