The American Indian As Slaveholder and Secessionist: an Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy (1915) |
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| Author:
| Abel, Annie |
| ISBN: | 979-8-4983-3141-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2021 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.99 |
Book Description:
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"Explores the diplomatic maneuvers of the Confederacy to secure alliances with the Five Civilized Tribes." -The Daily Oklahoman, Apr. 24, 2011 "Deals with...efforts made by the South to get Indian support for the Confederacy and treaties negotiated by the Confederate Government with some of the Indian Nations." -NY Times, Dec. 26, 1915 Did some Native American tribes own African-American slaves and nullify their tribal treaty rights with the United States by...
More Description "Explores the diplomatic maneuvers of the Confederacy to secure alliances with the Five Civilized Tribes." -The Daily Oklahoman, Apr. 24, 2011
"Deals with...efforts made by the South to get Indian support for the Confederacy and treaties negotiated by the Confederate Government with some of the Indian Nations." -NY Times, Dec. 26, 1915
Did some Native American tribes own African-American slaves and nullify their tribal treaty rights with the United States by signing treaties with the Confederacy and militarily siding with the South during the Civil War?
In 1915, groundbreaking historian Annie Heloise Abel (1873 - 1947) answers these perplexing question in her interesting book "The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist."
In introducing her book, Abel notes that it "deals with a phase of American Civil War history which has heretofore been almost entirely neglected or, where dealt with, either misunderstood or misinterpreted. Perhaps the third and last volume will to many people be the most interesting because it will show, in great detail, the enormous price that the unfortunate Indian had to pay for having allowed himself to become a secessionist and a soldier."
Abel was among the earliest professional historians to study Native Americans. She was one of the first thirty women in the United States to earn a PhD in history. One of the ablest historians of her day, Abel was an expert on the history of British and American Indian policies. As another historian has put it: "She was the first academically trained historian in the United States to consider the development of Indian-white relations and, although her focus was narrowly political and her methodology almost entirely archival-based, in this she was a pioneer."