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Ties That Bind: The Story Of An Afro-Cherokee Family In Slavery And Freedom, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

In Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, Miles utilizes the experiences of one family to analyze the intersection of African-American slavery, Cherokee sovereignty and kinship obligations, and gender roles over the course of the nineteenth century.