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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. Hand-colored lithograph from the
McKenney-Hall History of the Indian tribes of North America (1858), after an 1825 painting by Charles Bird King. |
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