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I've Been Here All the While

Black Freedom on Native Land

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I've Been Here All the While

By: Alaina E. Roberts
Narrated by: Caroline Sorunke
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Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule" - the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from.

In 19th-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and Whites from the Eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others.

Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land.

©2021 University of Pennsylvania Press (P)2022 Tantor Black & African American United States Civil War War
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Too long….

In a book form, this work could provide an excellent basis for a detailed an informed study of a mainly unknown part of American history. As it is, this Audiobook, though beautifully narrated, is much too long and repetitive. It makes it sometimes quite impossible to listen to …

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