Black Slaves, Indian Masters

Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South

By: Barbara Krauthamer

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

From 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 the nineteenth century, ongoing conflicts among Choctaw, Chickasaw, and U.S. lawmakers left untold numbers of former slaves and their descendants in the two Indian nations without citizenship in either the Indian nations or the United States. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of southern slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native American slaveholders and the black people they enslaved.

Krauthamer's examination of slavery and emancipation highlights the ways Indian women's gender roles changed with the arrival of slavery and changed again after emancipation and reveals complex dynamics of race that shaped the lives of black people and Indians both before and after removal.

©2013 The University of North Carolina Press (P)2022 Tantor

the history

did like how freed people and people of color were treated in this country from the beginning

The government actions and roles in the lives of both cultures.

I believe this book inforns the struggles of the Nation and its views on both their enslaved and freedmen. How the larger government influenced the laws of the Nation. This book is essential to understanding the complexity of America.

Indians and brown people

Chickasaw and Choctaw racism surprised and disappointed me. I didn’t like the way non Indians were called black throughout the book

excellent

As a black descendant of both nations i am extremely grateful for the remarkable work. It is priceless!

The information that has not been told.

This has connected so many dots. I now understand why the US called some of the tribes the "5 Civilized Indian Nations". These were the tribes that embraced the ideas and culture of the slave-holding South and European derived social norms. Very enlightening!