Ubuntu "Everything that exists has a Specific Nature" The role of Black Indians, largely omitted from or distorted in conventional history books, is traced by Katz with careful and committed research. And integrates their general history with brief individual biographies, including leaders, army scouts and soldiers, frontiersmen and explorers, and "dangerous outlaws." It reconstructs a legacy among two peoples who, for a while, provided mutual support and refuge from the unrelenting atrocities inflicted upon them by greedy whites. Although aspects of the separate histories are provided, a stronger emphasis is on Black Indians whose swarthy complexion or curly hair was apparentan obvious limitation of definition. It does not speak at length on the atrocities that Blacks suffered at the hands of the Indigenous Natives after reconstruction. Black Indians who are more or less familiar (Crispus Attucks and Paul Cuffee) are identified, as are the unfamiliar Zeferina, a woman commander of a Black Indian settlement, and O. S. Fox, editor of the Cherokee Afro-American Advocate . Katz makes it clear that much of this history is extremely well hidden or entirely lost, and numerous references are made to nameless black Indians. Because of the lack of information, too many statements are less than definitive.
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