{"id":23284,"date":"2012-05-22T01:54:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T01:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23284"},"modified":"2013-02-09T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T17:37:08","slug":"black-indian-slave-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23284","title":{"rendered":"Black Indian Slave Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Indian Slave Narratives<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

John F. Blair, Publisher<\/a>
\n2004
\n200 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-89587-298-2<\/p>\n

Patrick Minges<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes. Recently, historians have determined that of the 2,193 interviews with former slaves that were collected by the Federal Writers\u2019 Project<\/a>, 12 percent contain some reference to the interviewees\u2019 being related to or descended from Native Americans. In addition, many of the interviewees make references to their Native American owners. In Black Indian Slave Narratives<\/em>, Patrick Minges offers the most absorbing of these firsthand testimonies about African American and Native American relationships in the 19th century.<\/p>\n

The selections include an interview with Felix Lindsey, who was born in Kentucky of Mvskoke<\/a>\/African heritage and who served as one of the buffalo soldiers who rounded up Geronimo<\/a>. Chaney Mack, whose father was a \u201cfull-blood African\u201d from Liberia and whose mother was a \u201cpure-blood Indian,\u201d gives an in-depth look at both sides of her cultural heritage, including her mother\u2019s visions based on the \u201cnight the stars fell\u201d over Alabama. There are stories of Native Americans taken by \u201cnigger stealers,\u201d who found themselves placed on slave-auction blocks alongside their African counterparts.<\/p>\n

The narratives in this collection provide insight into the lives of people who lived in complex and dynamically interconnected cultures. The interviews also offer historical details of capture and enslavement, life in the Old South and the Old West, Indian removal, and slavery in the Indian territory.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t as dark as I am now, but kind of red-like, and when Geronimo saw me he said, \u201cYou ain\u2019t no nigger, you\u2019re an Indian.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father may have been an Indian, but I\u2019m a nigger because that\u2019s the race of my mother, and the race I chose,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u2014From Felix Lindsey\u2019s narrative<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black Indian Slave Narratives John F. Blair, Publisher 2004 200 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-89587-298-2 Patrick Minges Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes. Recently, historians have determined that of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1649,11,459,8,3015,20],"tags":[10847,9896,9895],"class_list":["post-23284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-john-f-blair-publisher","tag-patrick-n-minges","tag-patrick-neal-minges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}