This Members Only Masterclass will be held over Zoom

Black Slaves & Native American Slave-Owners   

In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts will discuss the history of Black slave-owning among the Five Tribes (the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Nations) and the Reconstruction project the United States enforced in Indian Territory (Oklahoma), which ended with the Black people in this region becoming the only group of former slaves in the world to receive reparations in the form of land.

Alaina E. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the intersection of Black and Native American life from the nineteenth century to the modern day. In addition to her award-winning first book, I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), and multiple academic articles, her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and TIME magazine and her work has been profiled by CNN and the Boston Globe.

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