{"title":"At the Intersection of Chickasaw Identity and Black Enslavement","authors":"Alaina E. Roberts","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0030","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A nineteenth-century Chickasaw woman, Betsy Love, fought a legal battle to ensure that her property could not be seized for her husband's debts. Her success in this endeavor has gone down in history as a lauded precursor to Mississippi's 1839 Married Women's Property Act and, subsequently, similar laws in multiple other states, all of which allowed white women to, for the first time, hold property separate from their husbands. The only problem? Betsy's \"property\" was an enslaved person named Toney, and slavery was essential to the Chickasaw Nation's economy cultural evolution—and, yet, discussions of this case have not fully reckoned with what this means for broader Chickasaw history and identity. This essay briefly explores this intersection of race, gender, and tribal identity.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0030","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:A nineteenth-century Chickasaw woman, Betsy Love, fought a legal battle to ensure that her property could not be seized for her husband's debts. Her success in this endeavor has gone down in history as a lauded precursor to Mississippi's 1839 Married Women's Property Act and, subsequently, similar laws in multiple other states, all of which allowed white women to, for the first time, hold property separate from their husbands. The only problem? Betsy's "property" was an enslaved person named Toney, and slavery was essential to the Chickasaw Nation's economy cultural evolution—and, yet, discussions of this case have not fully reckoned with what this means for broader Chickasaw history and identity. This essay briefly explores this intersection of race, gender, and tribal identity.
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In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.
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