Description
In Choctaw Confederates, Fay Yarbrough reveals that, while sovereignty and states' rights mattered to Choctaw leaders, the survival of slavery was what determined the Nation's support of the Confederacy. Mining service records for approximately 3,000 members of the First Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles, Yarbrough examines the experiences of Choctaw soldiers and notes that although their enthusiasm waned as the war persisted, military service allowed them to embrace traditional masculine roles-including that of slaveholder-that were disappearing in a changing political and economic landscape. By drawing parallels between the Choctaw Nation and the Confederate states, Yarbrough looks beyond the traditional binary of the Union and Confederacy and reconsiders the historical relationship between Native populations and slavery.
About the Author
Fay A. Yarbrough is associate professor of history at Rice University and the author of Race and the Cherokee Nation.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469665115
Author Fay A. Yarbrough
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 524g