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Jun 23, 2015 · This is the gripping story of their lives, in slavery and in freedom. Updated with a new preface and an appendix of key primary sources, this remains an essential book for students of Native American history, African American history, and the history of race and ethnicity in the United States.
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 ...
Jan 1, 2005 · Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Tiya Miles. 4.18. 357 ratings29 reviews. 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.
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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. Tiya Miles. Univ of California Press, Jun 23, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 368 pages. This beautifully...
Jun 23, 2015 · Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2nd edn) Get access. Tiya Miles ... Miles, Tiya, Ties That Bind: ...
Aug 7, 2006 · Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom Paperback – August 7, 2006 by Tiya Miles (Author) 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
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