Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867

by Minges,Patrick Neal

• ISBN13: 9780415945868
• ISBN10: 0415945860
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
Chapter One: Red, White, and Black in the Old South	5	(24)
Matters of the Heart	5	(2)
Early Points of Contact	7	(6)
The "Old Ways"	13	(7)
Contact and Conquest in Early America	20	(2)
The Birth of a Nation	22	(2)
The Building of a New World	24	(5)
Chapter Two: "Civilization" and Its Discontents	29	(26)
The First Awakening	29	(3)
The Beginnings of "Civilization"	32	(5)
Religion and Resistance	37	(10)
A Land of Their Own	47	(8)
Chapter Three: The Birth and Growth of the Keetoowah Society	55	(40)
Indian Pioneers	55	(2)
A Peculiar Institution	57	(8)
The Baptist Churches and Slavery in Indian Territory	65	(6)
The Birth of the Keetoowah Society	71	(2)
The Keetoowah Society	73	(12)
The Keetoowah Mission to other Nations	85	(10)
Chapter Four: "Between Two Fires"	95	(32)
The End of Secrecy and the Birth of the "Pins"	95	(3)
"A Position of Neutrality"	98	(2)
The Shadow of War	100	(4)
Into the Fire	104	(3)
The Confederate Cherokee	107	(3)
The Civil War Comes to Indian Territory	110	(6)
A Turning Point	116	(3)
The Mourning After	119	(8)
Chapter Five: "So Laudable an Enterprise"	127	(32)
The Nakedest of the Naked	127	(3)
The Home Front	130	(5)
"So Laudable an Enterprise"	135	(11)
Homecoming	139	(7)
Fraught with Danger, Distress, and Ruin	146	(4)
A New Nation	150	(4)
The Turning Point	154	(5)
Chapter Six: "The Most Sacred Obligations"	159	(34)
His Terrible Swift Sword	159	(5)
"An Indian shall not spill an Indian's blood"	164	(1)
Thorough Harmony	165	(5)
The Birth of a New Nation	170	(9)
Reconstructing a Nation	179	(5)
A New Mission	184	(9)
Conclusion: Identity and Ideology	193	(6)
Epilogue	199	(2)
Notes	201	(64)
Bibliography	265	(24)
Index	289