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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 · Language. English. xix, 306 pages : 24 cm. "This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s.
Aug 7, 2006 · In this lyrical narrative about Shoeboots, Doll, and their descendants, Tiya Miles explores the constant push and tug between family connections and racial divides. Building on meticulous and inspired historical detective work, Miles shows what it might have felt like to be a slave and reassesses the convoluted ideas about race that slavery ...
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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. Doll emerges as an especially poignant character, whose life is mostly known through the records of things done to her purchase, her marriage, the ...
Jan 1, 2005 · Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Tiya Miles. 4.18. 356ratings29reviews. Kindle $29.95. This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family.
Jun 23, 2015 · In framing the story of Doll and Shoeboots in the historical account of the Cherokee Nation, Miles makes it impossible for rational people to deny the ties that bind the people that are descended from both African and Indian peoples to their nations.
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