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Winter, 2006
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. By Tiya Miles. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xix + 306 pp. Illustrations, maps, chart, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95, 22.95.)
      In this important new work on black slavery among Native Americans, historian Tiya Miles deftly explores a topic neglected far too long in the literature. Her flowing narrative takes the reader on an effortless journey that looks at hard questions and searches for elusive answers to complicated and controversial issues that have been ignored or avoided by most scholars in the past. Miles relates the difficulties inherent in this topic, noting the reticence of Native and African Americans to explore a painful history of the exploitation of one colonized people in the service of another. . . .
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