Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes Clay The written records of the

The written records of the Moravian missionaries from 1752-1802 beginning with their early contact with the Cherokees and establishment of the first mission school

2 3/4" long

this book presents teachings about the body

These beautifully engraved

reestablishment after removal

Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes Clay The written records of theThe Freedmen of Oklahoma were Black people, both enslaved and free, who had been living among the Indian nations. After the official abolition of slavery in 1866, they forged an identity as their own people as they faced the challenges of the western frontier. By 1906, before Oklahoma statehood, more than twenty thousand people had been classified as "Freedmen" from the Five Tribes: Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations. For