The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist

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Annie Heloise Abel. The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist

The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist

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PREFACE

I. THE GENERAL SITUATION IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY, 1830-1860

II. INDIAN TERRITORY IN ITS RELATIONS WITH TEXAS AND ARKANSAS

III. THE CONFEDERACY IN NEGOTIATION WITH THE INDIAN TRIBES

IV. THE INDIAN NATIONS IN ALLIANCE WITH THE CONFEDERACY

APPENDIX A—FORT SMITH PAPERS

APPENDIX B—THE LEEPER[590] OR WICHITA AGENCY PAPERS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Annie Heloise Abel

An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy

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I rejoice to believe the above sentiments are entertained by most, if not all, the missionaries now among the Choctaws and Chickasaws, and that they entirely repudiate the higher-law doctrine[49] of northern and religious fanatics. It is but lately, as I learn, that the Choctaw mission, for many years under the control of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (whose headquarters are at Boston) has been cut off, because they preferred to follow the teachings of the Bible, as understood by them, rather than obey the dogmas contained in Dr. Treat’s letter and the edicts of the parent board.

It is a matter of congratulation among the friends of the old Choctaw missionaries, who have labored for thirty years among them, and intend to die with armor on, that all connection with the Boston board has been dissolved. If it had been done years ago, when their freedom of conscience and of missionary action was attempted to be controlled by the parent board, much of suspicion, of ill-feeling, and diminished usefulness, which attached to the Choctaw missionaries in consequence of their connection with and sustenance by a board avowedly and openly hostile to southern institutions, would have been prevented.[50]

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