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Black, white, and Indian : race and the unmaking of an American family / Claudio Saunt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saunt, Claudio.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grayson family--History.
- Grayson family.
- Creek Indians--History--Sources.
- Creek Indians.
- Creek Indians--Mixed descent.
- Creek Indians--Genealogy.
- African Americans--Southern States--Relations with Indians.
- African Americans.
- White people--Southern States--Relations with Indians.
- White people.
- Interracial marriage--Southern States--History.
- Interracial marriage.
- Southern States--Genealogy.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-290) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- 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
- OCLC:
- 62866096
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