Friday, April 10, 2020

The Nearly-Forgotten History Of The 1842 Slave Revolt By African Americans Enslaved Under The Cherokee Nation

The Nearly-Forgotten History Of The 1842 Slave Revolt By African Americans Enslaved Under The Cherokee Nation
Excerpt: n the night of Nov. 15, 1842, a group of 25 black slaves largely owned by a notorious Cherokee slave master made a daring escape. Unfortunately, the rebellion, which later became known as the 1842 Cherokee slave revolt, has remained but a footnote in the history of American slavery. After Native Americans were exempt from the slave trade in 1730, many of those Natives took to owning black slaves themselves, moving off their ancestral lands with slaves in tow. Indeed, by 1860, the Cherokee Nation alone owned over 4,000 black slaves. (Many Indian tribes took members of other tribes as slaves, so i have read. ~Bob)

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