Imagine going on something called the Trail of Tears and they refer to the tears of your slave masters…
by bsmith2123
Imagine going on something called the Trail of Tears and they refer to the tears of your slave masters…
by bsmith2123
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The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of about 60,000 Native Americans of the “Five Civilized Tribes”, including their black slaves,between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
As part of Indian removal, members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to newly designated Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
The black slaves were not freed and instead sent on the trail as well.
Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears?wprov=sfti1#
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339/
Edit: because some people missed the point of my post; it wasn’t to justify the trail of tears or to somehow dehumanize the native Americans but to add another level of how fucked up the entire Indian Removal act was (and that period in general).
Is there any literature on this? Would be interested to read about it
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The Battle of Pea Ridge in 1862 had regiments made up of members of the Five Civilized Tribes fighting for the CSA, the Cherokee being the most prominent.
When the Confederacy loss, this led to the controversial Reconstruction Treaties between the tribes and the US government, where they were required to free their slaves and give them tribal membership, which is still an issue to this day.
I never thought about it, but this is a new level of messed up..
It was actually called The Walk of Shame since they were losing their land and weren’t proud of that fact. Source- https://youtu.be/pjs4fRCnb3g
Don’t think natives had slaves only da white man did.
I have it under the authority of a history professor at Luther College that only white people owned slaves