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Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country

by Fay A. Yarbrough

When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people—the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved Blacks. Avid supporters of the Confederate States of America, the Nation passed

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

280

ISBN

9781469665115