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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819646503321

Autore

Saunt Claudio

Titolo

Black, white, and Indian : race and the unmaking of an American family / / Claudio Saunt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-19-988419-6

0-19-531310-0

1-4237-4636-8

1-280-42828-7

9786610428281

0-19-803918-2

1-60256-525-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

929/.2/08905973850073

Soggetti

Creek Indians - History

Creek Indians - Mixed descent

Creek Indians

African Americans - Southern States - Relations with Indians

Whites - Southern States - Relations with Indians

Interracial marriage - Southern States - History

Southern States Genealogy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Profile: A Symposium at Dartmouth College; 1 The Griersons; Profile: Native Art, June 2000; 2 "My negro Woman Judah": William's Decision; Profile: Rudy Hutton, September 1999 and June 2000; 3 Race and Removal: Katy's Compromise; Profile: Marilyn Vann, June 2003 and April 2004; 4 Separate Paths: Katy and William in the Antebellum Creek Nation; Profile: Napoleon Davis, June 2000; 5 "It is negroes that we are killing now": The Graysons' Civil War; Profile: Chester Adams, June 2000; 6 Northern Indians and Negro Slaves: Wash and the Politics of Reconstruction

Profile: Buddy Cox, July 1999 and June 20007 Hardship and



Opportunity: The Fortunes of Emma, Vicey, and Wash; Profile: Buddy Cox, June 2000; 8 Divided by Blood: The Graysons and the End of the Creek Nation; Profile: Bob Littlejohn, July 1999 and June 2000; 9 Wash in the Age of Progress; Profile: Bob Littlejohn, June 2002; 10 The Graysons in a Black and White World; Afterword; A Note on Sources and Historiography; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

This tells the story of a Native American family with a long kept secret: one branch is of African descent. Focusing on five generations from 1780 to 1920, Saunt shows how Indians disowned their black relatives to survive in the shadow of the expanding American republic.