2nd Saturday Civil War Series: Black Slaves & Indian Masters: A New Story of Reconstruction in the West with Dr. Alaina E. Roberts

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In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH!

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In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts will discuss the history of Black slave-ownership among the Five Tribes (the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Nations) and the Reconstruction project the United States enforced in Indian Territory (Oklahoma), which ended with Black people in this region becoming the only group of former slaves in the world to receive reparations in the form of land.

Alaina E. Roberts is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the multi-award winning author of I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, which uses archival research and family history to provide a new perspective on African American and Native American history in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. She has written for TIME magazine, High Country News, and the Washington Post, and her research has been featured in CNN, the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.
 

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