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  2. Amerindian slave ownership - Wikipedia

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    The Chickasaw obtained many slaves born in Georgia, Tennessee, or Virginia . [51] [46] In 1790, Major John Doughty wrote to Henry Knox that Chickasaws owned a great many horses, and some families owned slaves and cattle. [51] Among the Chickasaw who were slaveholders many had European heritage, mostly through a white father and a Chickasaw ...

  3. Treaty of Pontotoc Creek - Wikipedia

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    The Senate refused to ratify the Franklin treaty and the Chickasaw refused to leave their territory in Mississippi. [10] For two additional years, the Chickasaws remained in Mississippi. Increasingly, however, the resolve of the Chickasaw people began to wane due to increasing numbers of non-Chickasaw squatters on Chickasaw lands and the ...

  4. African-American slave owners - Wikipedia

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    In slave societies, nearly everyone – free and slave – aspired to enter the slaveholding class, and upon occasion some former slaves rose into slaveholders' ranks. Their acceptance was grudging, as they carried the stigma of bondage in their lineage and, in the case of American slavery, color in their skin. [10]

  5. Choctaw freedmen - Wikipedia

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    Henry Crittenden, who was born into slavery in the Choctaw Nation but was later emancipated. [1]The Choctaw Freedmen are former enslaved Africans, Afro-Indigenous, and African Americans who were emancipated and granted citizenship in the Choctaw Nation after the Civil War, according to the tribe's new peace treaty of 1866 with the United States.

  6. Reconstruction Treaties - Wikipedia

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    The Chickasaw however refused to accept the Freedmen into the Chickasaw Nation on the grounds that the Nation was so small that absorbing their Freedmen would dilute the Chickasaw Nation. This refusal resulted in the Chickasaw Freedmen spending a significant number of years being citizens of no country at all.

  7. Slave descendants on Georgia island fighting to keep ... - AOL

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    The rules were enacted in 1994 for the sole purpose of protecting one of the South's few remaining communities of people known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, whose ancestors worked island slave ...

  8. Treaty with Choctaws and Chickasaws - Wikipedia

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    The Confederacy's loss was also the Choctaw Nation's loss. The Choctaw Nation, in what would be Oklahoma, kept slavery until 1866. After the Civil War, they were required by treaty with the United States to free the slaves within their nation. Former slaves of the Choctaw Nation were called the Choctaw Freedmen.

  9. Fact check: Trump says George Washington ‘probably didn’t ...

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    She ended up signing a deed to free all of his remaining slaves the year after his death, but she kept the slaves she had inherited herself. Trump made many other false claims