Source:Littlefield, Daniel F. Cherokee Freedmen

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Source	The Cherokee Freedmen
	From Emancipation to American Citizenship
Author	Littlefield, Daniel F

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Place	Oklahoma, United States
Subject	Ethnic/Cultural
Ethnicity / Culture	African American

Publication information

Type	Book
Publisher	Greenwood Press
Date issued	4 December 1978
Place issued	Westport, Connecticut
Periodical / Series name	Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies

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Littlefield, Daniel F. The Cherokee Freedmen: From Emancipation to American Citizenship. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 4 December 1978).

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"Littlefield unravels the complex history of the demise of the Cherokee nation. In overwhelming detail he reconstructs the nation's 40 year struggle to define the social, political, and legal status of the freed blacks among them. The freedmen issue led to federal intervention on behalf of the blacks, which eroded the nation's autonomy; it exhausted the nation's resources; it bred division among the Cherokees; and it persuaded white Americans that the Cherokees had no special claim to Indian land or governmental favors...Recommended for university libraries." –-Library Journal Review

Littlefield unravels the complex history of the demise of the Cherokee nation. In overwhelming detail he reconstructs the nation's 40 year struggle to define the social, political, and legal status of the freed blacks among them. The freedmen issue led to federal intervention on behalf of the blacks, which eroded the nation's autonomy; it exhausted the nation's resources; it bred division among the Cherokees; and it persuaded white Americans that the Cherokees had no special claim to Indian land or governmental favors...Recommended for university libraries. --From the Publisher

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