This program marks OSU’s participation in a national focus on 400 years of African American history, which began with the arrival of some twenty enslaved Africans to Point Comfort, Virginia in August 1619.
"Combining family history and rigorous research, this brilliant text deepens our understanding of post-Civil War Reconstruction by interrogating what happened in Indian Territory, revealing the layered wreckage wrought on the Native nations and formerly enslaved Africans, all entrapped in the pernicious logic of settler-colonialism."
—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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