Robert Elliott Flickinger’s account documents a little-known dimension of post-Civil War American history: the experience of formerly enslaved people held by the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory, and the establishment of Oak Hill Industrial Academy as an educational institution to serve freedpeople in that region. The book intersects the history of Reconstruction, federal Indian policy, and missionary education in the post-bellum South and Southwest.
This is a specialized but valuable primary source for researchers interested in the overlapping histories of African Americans and Native nations in the nineteenth century. Download this free EPUB for a detailed account of an often-overlooked chapter of American history.