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  2. Choctaw freedmen - Wikipedia

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    Henry Crittenden, who was born into slavery in the Choctaw Nation but was later emancipated. [1]The Choctaw Freedmen are former enslaved Africans, Afro-Indigenous, and African Americans who were emancipated and granted citizenship in the Choctaw Nation after the Civil War, according to the tribe's new peace treaty of 1866 with the United States.

  3. History of the Choctaw - Wikipedia

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    The History of the Choctaws, or Chahtas, are a Native American people originally from the Southeast of what is currently known as the United States.They are known for their rapid post-colonial adoption of a written language, transitioning to yeoman farming methods, having European-American lifestyles enforced in their society, and acquiring some customs from Africans they enslaved.

  4. Amerindian slave ownership - Wikipedia

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    The federal government's expulsion of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek (Muscogee) tribes opened the door to the rapid growth of plantation slavery across the "Deep South", but Indian removal also pushed chattel slavery westward, setting the stage for more conflicts. [51]

  5. Afro-Caribbean people - Wikipedia

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    Afro-Caribbean or African Caribbean people are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbean people descend from the Africans (primarily from West and Central Africa) taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries to work primarily on various sugar plantations and in ...

  6. Culture of the Choctaw - Wikipedia

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    The culture of the Choctaw has greatly evolved over the centuries combining mostly European-American influences; however, interaction with Spain, France, and England greatly shaped it as well. The Choctaws , or Chahtas, are a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States.

  7. Igbo people in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Some slave censuses detailed the large number of enslaved Igbo people on various plantations throughout the island on different dates throughout the 18th century. [2] Their presence was a large part in forming Jamaican culture, Igbo cultural influence remains in language, dance, music, folklore

  8. 'We are resilient people': A project to keep cultures and ...

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    Due to the resettlement efforts, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe of Isle de Jean Charles has been referred to by some as the first "climate refugees" as a result of their resettling -- a ...

  9. Sugar plantations in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    This act extended to the Caribbean plantations under British control. Without the labor influx of slaves through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the system became harder to maintain. Years later, in 1838, more than half a million people in the Caribbean were emancipated from slavery as a result of the 1833 Emancipation Bill. [14]