Black, White, and Indian

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Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--wereoften necessarily guided by the harsh economic realities imposed by the country's racial hierarchy. Few families in American history embody this struggle to survive the pervasive onslaught of racism more than the Graysons.Like many other residents of the eighteenth-century Native American South, where Black-Indian relations bore little social stigma, Katy Grayson and her brother William--both Creek Indians--had children with partners of African descent. As the plantation economy began to spread across their nativeland soon after the birth of the American republic, however, Katy abandoned her black partner and children to marry a Scottish-Creek man...

subjects: History,  Nonfiction,  Creek Indians,  Blacks,  Genealogy,  Whites,  Sources,  Interracial marriage,  Relations with Indians,  Mixed descent,  Indians of north america, southern states,  Blacks, south america,  Southern states, genealogy,  Indians of north america, history,  Indians of north america, mixed descent,  Indians of north america, genealogy,  Blacks, united states,  African Americans,  White people,  V Genealogy,  Black people,  Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer