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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 ...
Jun 23, 2015 · 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.
Jan 1, 2005 · Ties That Bind is an inspiring example of self-conscious, responsible, well-researched work in the face of gaps and absences in the historical record. Miles's use of an Afro-Cherokee family to analyze the tenuous racial boundaries between white, black, and Native Americans in the nineteenth century shows how one may reasonably extrapolate ...
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Tiya Miles’ book, Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, is the story of a family and the societies which try to tear it apart. Miles chronicles the lives of a Cherokee man, Shoe Boots; an African woman, Doll; and their children,
- Tiya Alicia Miles
- 2005
Mar 7, 2020 · This is the gripping story of their lives, in slavery and in freedom. Meticulously crafted from historical and literary sources, Ties That Bind vividly portrays the members of the Shoeboots family.
Jun 23, 2015 · 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...
Oct 1, 2006 · This book by Tiya Miles is an impressive work that attempts to trace the story of an African or African American woman, Doll, her Cherokee warrior husband, Shoeboots, and their children of mixed ancestry from the end of the eighteenth century through the end of the nineteenth and beyond.
