{"id":7106,"date":"2013-04-02T04:32:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T04:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2015-03-22T18:15:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:15:40","slug":"ties-that-bind-the-story-of-an-afro-cherokee-family-in-slavery-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7106","title":{"rendered":"Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520250024\" target=\"_blank\">Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of California Press<\/a><br \/>\nFebruary 2005<br \/>\n329 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780520241329<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780520250024<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tiyamiles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiya Miles<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520250024\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/img\/covers\/isbn13\/9780520241329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, Organization of American Historians<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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\u2014including slavery, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creek_War\" target=\"_blank\">Creek War<\/a>, the founding of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee_Nation\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee Nation<\/a> and subsequent removal of Native Americans along the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trail_of_Tears\" target=\"_blank\">Trail of Tears<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>. This is the gripping story of their lives, in slavery and in freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Meticulously crafted from historical and literary sources, <em>Ties That Bind<\/em> vividly portrays the members of the Shoeboots family. Doll emerges as an especially poignant character, whose life is mostly known through the records of things done to her\u2014her purchase, her marriage, the loss of her children\u2014but also through her moving petition to the federal government for the pension owed to her as Shoe Boots&#8217;s widow. A sensitive rendition of the hard realities of black slavery within Native American nations, the book provides the fullest picture we have of the myriad complexities, ironies, and tensions among African Americans, Native Americans, and whites in the first half of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>List of Illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Shoeboots Family Tree<\/li>\n<li>Preface<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledgments<\/li>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>PART ONE. BONE OF MY BONE: SLAVERY, RACE, AND NATION\u2014EAST\n<ul>\n<li>1. Captivity<\/li>\n<li>2. Slavery<\/li>\n<li>3. Motherhood<\/li>\n<li>4. Property<\/li>\n<li>5. Christianity<\/li>\n<li>6. Nationhood<\/li>\n<li>7. Gold Rush<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>PART TWO. OF BLOOD AND BONE: FREEDOM, KINSHIP, AND CITIZENSHIP\u2014WEST\n<ul>\n<li>8. Removal<\/li>\n<li>9. Capture<\/li>\n<li>10. Freedom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Epilogue: Citizenship<\/li>\n<li>Coda: The Shoeboots Family Today<\/li>\n<li>Appendix 1. Research Methods and Challenges<\/li>\n<li>Appendix 2. Definition and Use of Terms<\/li>\n<li>Appendix 3. Cherokee Names and Mistaken Identities<\/li>\n<li>Notes<\/li>\n<li>Selected Bibliography<\/li>\n<li>Index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom University of California Press February 2005 329 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520241329 Paperback ISBN: 9780520250024 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Frederick Jackson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,3015,6940,20],"tags":[2969,1284],"class_list":["post-7106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-tiya-miles","tag-university-of-california-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","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=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}