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John Ross, the famous Cherokee chief, owned 100 African slaves in the early
1800s. Cherokees were valuable allies of American slaveholders from at least the
Yamasee War (1714) through the U.S. Civil War, when the Cherokees sided with the
confederacy. Colored lithograph published circa 1843 for the McKenney & Hall
series, based on the 1825 painting by Charles Bird King.
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