Regarded as an Appendage of His Family
Slavery, Family, and the Law in Indian Territory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3623123 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nakia D Parker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-51 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1867 • E-ISSN: 2153-5086 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/712041 |
| OpenAlex | W3134063886 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
A wealth of historical scholarship exists on how chattel slavery and the stigmatization of Blackness shaped familial bonds, kinship networks, and identity formation among Black and Native people in the Cherokee and Creek Nations. Yet, only one full-length work exists on the institution in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Barbara Krauthamer’s groundbreaking 2013 monograph, Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South. This essay expands upon this scholarship with an examination of the lives of enslaved people in Choctaw and Chickasaw communities in nineteenth-century Indian Territory through the lens of family, kinship, and the law. It analyzes how Black and Native people eluded or ignored legal codes that forbid intimate relationships to form family and kinship bonds. In addition, this article demonstrates how the repercussions of both coerced and voluntary relationships during slavery shaped the political and social activism of freedwomen during the emancipation period
Archaeology · Cherokee · Citizenship · Emancipation · Genealogy · Institution · Kinship · Political science · Politics · Probate · Scholarship · Sociology · American History and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
On Slavery's Border
Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians
Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex
Slave Country
Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves
Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South
Slavery in Indian Country
Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |