African Creeks
Author | : Gary Zellar |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806138152 |
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A narrative of the African Creek community
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Author | : Gary Zellar |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806138152 |
A narrative of the African Creek community
Author | : Daniel F. Littlefield |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1979-11-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Sue W. Spencer |
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Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
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Letters from West Africa by the wife of a mining engineer, who was sent to Sierra Leone and other sections of the country.
Author | : David A. Chang |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2010-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807895768 |
The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives of the American past, revealing how identities--race, nation, and class--took new forms in struggles over the creation of different systems of property. Conflicts were unleashed by a series of sweeping changes: the forced "removal" of the Creeks from their homeland to Oklahoma in the 1830s, the transformation of the Creeks' enslaved black population into landed black Creek citizens after the Civil War, the imposition of statehood and private landownership at the turn of the twentieth century, and the entrenchment of a sharecropping economy and white supremacy in the following decades. In struggles over land, wealth, and power, Oklahomans actively defined and redefined what it meant to be Native American, African American, or white. By telling this story, David Chang contributes to the history of racial construction and nationalism as well as to southern, western, and Native American history.
Author | : Kevin Dawson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2021-05-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0812224930 |
Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
Author | : Sue W. Spencer |
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Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
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Author | : Ruthan Burchel |
Publisher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2007-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1602660700 |
Ruthan Burchel is a career missionary nurse, housewife, and mother. She was born in Ohio, but after knowing the great climate of Africa without snow, sleet, and ice, they decided to settle in North Carolina as their home base. She and her doctor husband, Hal, have served in several African countries. They have four grown children, all of whom love the Lord. Ruthan's stated goal is to love her Jesus with her whole heart and walk a consistent Christian life while enjoying the journey. Her dry humor works its way into most every day, as this book will show you. African Creeks I've Been Up is just that! Here the author brings together a compilation of every day experiences of a long-time career missionary. Some are hilarious. Some are quite serious. Some are miraculous. But, the intent is that all is to show accurately how diversified missionary life actually can be. It shows the great need for a good sense of humor and the need for flexibility; accepting things as they come our way, knowing that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord.
Author | : Alaina E. Roberts |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2021-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812297989 |
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.
Author | : Horace Mann Bond |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820340839 |
The Star Creek Papers is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s. When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism. The Bonds were a young, well-educated and idealistic African American couple working for the Rosenwald Fund, a trust established by a northern philanthropist to build schools in rural areas. They were part of the "Explorer Project" sent to investigate the progress of the school in the Star Creek district of Washington Parish. Their report, which decried the teachers' lack of experience, the poor quality of the coursework, and the students' chronic absenteeism, was based on their private journal, "The Star Creek Diary," a shrewdly observed, sharply etched, and affectionate portrait of a rural black community. Horace Bond was moved to write a second document, "Forty Acres and a Mule," a history of a black farming family, after Jerome Wilson was lynched in 1935. The Wilsons were thrifty landowners whom Bond knew and respected; he intended to turn their story into a book, but the chronicle remained unfinished at his death. These important primary documents were rediscovered by civil rights scholar Adam Fairclough, who edited them with Julia Bond's support.