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Subject:	Re: SLAVE OWNERSHIP BY NATIVE AMERICANS IN VIRGINIA
From:	Basil Forest <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:09:08 EST
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I am aware of Theda Perdue's book Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee  
Society which documents the ownership of black slaves by the Cherokee.  The  
Cherokee Phoenix carried ads for slave sales in the 19th century.  The  Cherokees 
were also excellent trackers who were hired to catch Black runaways by  their 
white owners.
 
I also understood that free blacks were allowed to own black slaves in  every 
state except Delaware and Arkansas.  Am I misinformed?  See, Ira  Berlin, 
Slaves Without Masters:  The Free Negro in the Antebellum  South.
 
The Choctaws reluctantly freed their slaves in  1866.

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