Somewhere there ought to be a book out there that some of the biggest black slaveholders were Cherokee Indians and other Southern tribes. And that the last place slavery ended in the U.S. was in the Cherokee Nation in 1866, after the end of the Civil War. That ought to cause some gyrations in his political correctness meter.
“Somewhere there ought to be a book out there that some of the biggest black slaveholders were Cherokee Indians and other Southern tribes. And that the last place slavery ended in the U.S. was in the Cherokee Nation in 1866, after the end of the Civil War. That ought to cause some gyrations in his political correctness meter.”
There is. See post # 27
Actually, slavery ended in Indian Territory with Lincoln’s emancipation, but most of the Cherokee slaves wanted to stay. I have testimonies of many of them, who were SO unhappy with their new ‘freedom’.
VERY interesting.
Testimonies of Cherokee Freedmen Slaves, A 1937 WPA project. Records prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1938 assembled by Library of Congress Work Projects, Admin. Dist. Of Columbia http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a3906
I talked to an indian once and he said the indians had one tribal name - called “The People” - the Cherokee, Navahoo, etc. are white man names.
“But you had different tribes - right?”
“Of course - we weren’t going to raid and take slaves from our own tribes! We just didn’t give them names.”