From Indian Territory to White Man's Country: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Land Ownership in Eastern Oklahoma, 1889-1940University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2002 - 351 pages |
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... slaves , this change in land tenure depended on an intensification of the practice of slavery . As soon as the ... slaves , and in 1839 the nation contained almost four hundred slaves . ' 3 As enslaved men and women transformed the rich ...
... slaves , this change in land tenure depended on an intensification of the practice of slavery . As soon as the ... slaves , and in 1839 the nation contained almost four hundred slaves . ' 3 As enslaved men and women transformed the rich ...
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... slave labor to transfom their rough settlements into large and prosperous plantations and ranches . Slaves cleared the lands of trees , drained swamps to make them cultivable , and removed fieldstone from the heavy , red clay soil . Slave ...
... slave labor to transfom their rough settlements into large and prosperous plantations and ranches . Slaves cleared the lands of trees , drained swamps to make them cultivable , and removed fieldstone from the heavy , red clay soil . Slave ...
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... slave labor , but the experiences of these slaves differed substantially from those who , like Phoebe Banks , worked on the plantations . Lucinda Davis and her parents , for example , lived and worked in a way more suggestive of the ...
... slave labor , but the experiences of these slaves differed substantially from those who , like Phoebe Banks , worked on the plantations . Lucinda Davis and her parents , for example , lived and worked in a way more suggestive of the ...
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