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25 quotes from Tiya Miles: 'Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.', 'The history of Africans in America is brutal, but we have made art out of pain, sustaining our spirits with sunbursts of beauty, teaching ourselves how to rise the next day.', and 'As one historian of slavery and capitalism concluded ...
Jun 23, 2015 · Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (American Crossroads) - Tiya Miles. This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll.
Mar 7, 2020 · Meticulously crafted from historical and literary sources, Ties That Bind 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 - her purchase, her marriage, the loss of her children - but also through her moving petition to ...
Jun 23, 2015 · Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom Volume 14 of American Crossroads George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies: Author: Tiya Miles: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2015: ISBN: 0520285638, 9780520285637: Length: 368 pages: Subjects
Aug 7, 2006 · In Ties That Bind, Tiya Miles challenged these traditional views by discussing the relationships between these two groups. Through the lives of the Shoeboots family, a mixed household, where Cherokee Shoe Boots was the patriarch who married first a white woman captive and then an African American slave named Doll.
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Feb 24, 2021 · February 24, 2021 / 0 Comments. “Ties That Bind: An Interview with Tiya Miles” — A 2007 interview by the Monthly Review. By tiyamiles.
A non fiction book by Tiya Miles This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll.
