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S'està carregant… Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedomde Tiya Miles
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"This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master and slave and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, experienced key events in American history--including slavery, the Creek War, the founding of the Cherokee Nation and subsequent removal of Native Americans along the Trail of Tears, and the Civil War. This is the gripping story of their lives, in slavery and in freedom"--Provided by publisher. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Miles’s work is bigger than just nineteenth century race relations—it is about identity, community, belonging, and memory. These bigger issues are interwoven with the struggles of Shoe Boots’s family to gain recognition in the Cherokee community and negotiate the liminal space between the rigid racial categories of white, Indian, and black. After reading her re-creation of their family story, I immediately drew comparisons to those who feel marginalized by societal categories of belonging, specifically categories of gender and nationality. ( )