When you do everything ‘right’, and it still only take a populist demagogue to whip up the racists into an opportunistic frenzy to commit ethnic cleansing.
Examples of such colonial attributes adopted by these five tribes included Christianity, centralized governments, literacy, market participation, written constitutions, intermarriage with White Americans, and chattel slavery practices, including purchase of enslaved Black Americans.[5][6] For a period, the Five Civilized Tribes tended to maintain stable political relations with the White population. However, White encroachment continued and eventually led to the removal of these tribes from the Southeast, most prominently along the Trail of Tears.
Yeap… It’s how some of my family ended up in Oklahoma. My dad’s side of the family were some of the early founders of the Moravian church in the US. They got kicked out of Georgia for being too friendly with the natives and attempting to sneak slaves away to attend their sermons.
John Brown once, on the frontier, was asked to help his neighbors drive off Natives so his ‘fellow’ whites could take their land.
John Brown answered, with characteristic fury, that he would sooner drive off white men who thought like that than raise a hand against Native folk who had done nothing wrong.
Your ancestors are in good company. Would that more of the US were like them, and not what we ended up with.
The Moravian church was kind of radical, I’m not religious but imo it’s the closest thing to actual Christianity we’ve ever gotten. Overseas b there were Moravian church members who would sell themselves into slavery so they could preach to other slaves.
Before some of my family were sent off with the Cherokee on the trail of tears, half of them went up north to Pennsylvania and Ohio and were killed in the Gnadenhutten massacre during the revolutionary war. The survivors fled to Canada and would later be attacked after the battle of the Thames by the US cavalry expedition that killed Tecumseh during the war of 1812.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes
When you do everything ‘right’, and it still only take a populist demagogue to whip up the racists into an opportunistic frenzy to commit ethnic cleansing.
Yeap… It’s how some of my family ended up in Oklahoma. My dad’s side of the family were some of the early founders of the Moravian church in the US. They got kicked out of Georgia for being too friendly with the natives and attempting to sneak slaves away to attend their sermons.
John Brown once, on the frontier, was asked to help his neighbors drive off Natives so his ‘fellow’ whites could take their land.
John Brown answered, with characteristic fury, that he would sooner drive off white men who thought like that than raise a hand against Native folk who had done nothing wrong.
Your ancestors are in good company. Would that more of the US were like them, and not what we ended up with.
The Moravian church was kind of radical, I’m not religious but imo it’s the closest thing to actual Christianity we’ve ever gotten. Overseas b there were Moravian church members who would sell themselves into slavery so they could preach to other slaves.
Before some of my family were sent off with the Cherokee on the trail of tears, half of them went up north to Pennsylvania and Ohio and were killed in the Gnadenhutten massacre during the revolutionary war. The survivors fled to Canada and would later be attacked after the battle of the Thames by the US cavalry expedition that killed Tecumseh during the war of 1812.