Unraveling: Black Indigeneity in America

This digital resource examines historical intersections between African and Native American peoples, particularly in relation to New Haven and Yale University. View 'Sections' below:

Section Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
4:26 - Native Americans in Slavery
5:15 - Slavery in Spanish Colonies
6:23 - Slavery in Portuguese Colonies
8:00 - Slavery in French Colonies
9:48 - Slavery in British Colonies
10:50 - The Pequot War
12:34 - New Haven Colony
13:51 - Southern Slave Trade
15:11 - Racial Etymology
19:09 - Yale and the Indian Slave Trades
21:15 - George Berkeley's Bermuda Scheme
23:25 - Johnathan Edwards and Stockbridge Indian Mission
24:26 - John Sergeant
25:40 - Timothy Woodbridge
26:56 - Arson of Stockbridge Indian Mission
27:54 - Escaped Afro-Indigenous Captives
28:05 - Methotaskee/Elizabeth (Shawnee)
29:27 - Crispus Attucks (Wampanoag)
30:19 - Native American Whaling
31:52 - Slavery and Kidnapping in California
34:38 - Afro-Indigenous Suits for Freedom
42:39 - Pursuit of Representation
42:55 - Captain Paul Cuffe (Wampanoag)
47:48 - Cuffe-Moses Family
49:30 - Afro-Indigenous Shipbuilding
52:02 - Cuffe's New Haven
52:32 - Ezra Stiles
55:44 - Cuffe in Sierra Leone
57:00 - Timothy Dwight IV
58:12 - James Fenimore Cooper
1:00:00 - Antebellum New Haven
1:01:30 - The Amistad
1:02:51 - Civil War
1:03:06 - Shawnee Indian Mission
1:05:16 - Abolitionist British Honduras Plan
1:06:04 - Confederates in Central America and the Caribbean
1:09:09 - Political Cartoons from Harper's Weekly
1:09:50 - Ho-tul-ko-micco/Silas Jefferson (Muscogee)
1:10:52 - Tribal Dissolution of Freedmen
1:11:42 - Five Civilized Tribes Act
1:14:47 - Census Reorganization
1:15:55 - John Calhoun and Joseph Underwood
1:17:56 - The "One-Drop Rule"
1:21:16 - Hochschild Thesis
1:22:42 - Francis Amasa Walker
1:23:35 - Walter Plecker
1:25:02 - Pencil and Paper Genocide
1:25:57 - Census Case Study
1:26:37 - Cadiz, Kentucky
1:28:52 - Sundown Towns
1:29:14 - Nearby Slave Narratives
1:30:39 - Ernest Baker
1:34:14 - Community Resources
1:39:24 - Works Cited/Appendix

[theethers]

Indians enslaved as prisoners of war mind blown 🤯...this somehow gets a different narrative/spin i.e. 1619 project & "African American" misnomer. Thanks for your research and bringing it forth!

[suzieshields]

Well done. Thank you Mr. Farmer! I’ve learned so much that I never knew about this topic in American history. I’ll be sure to reference this is my Ph.D studies.

[mimi-rkqu]

What is missing is the legal reclassification of the Indians to everything but Indian beginning with the 1790 census. A point to ponder - what racial classification was given to the children the Indian women had with white men?

Keep in mind the heavy racial persecution and the fact the very essence of being an Indian was being wiped from human existence (unless you lived on the isolated barren tracts of land assigned to you with Europeans passing themselves off as Indians - see $5 Indian).

[chrispullinsproject]

Well it's nice to know Yale admits it's built from the backs of slaves.
CUT THE

[CODENIJJIRISING]

YES! FEATHERS UP TRIBE UP BLESS YOU RELATIVES KEEP MOVING OUR ENERGY. ONE LOVE

[leewilly]

Thanks Evan. "The European will be forced to tell the truth" noble drew Ali

[lamp]

I grew up in East Haven, CT in the 60's and 70's. As a child I really wanted to know what happened to all the Native tribes of New England. My teachers told me to go to the library. I went to the East Haven library as I only had access to that library at the time. There was not very much information on the subject at all. Most referenced the Thanksgiving story. I was very disappointed. I at least wanted to know the names of the tribes and geological locations. You have given so much information in this one presentation. Thank you. It's a very sad history. No wonder few people wanted to write about it. 😢

[ChillWill]

Great lecture; I look forward to more amazing information about the Original people of America. Thanks for your work

[rainyfeathers]

'Savage' indeed😤. Their powers of projection are amazing, incredible. Moreso, people today who read what the colonizers did to us all and still side with them🤯

[blackasiamagazine]

From my research I've seen that negro, colored and African are all terms for stateless people. They are legal and political designations. Was Crispus Attucks a Wampanoag or a Natick? Are they distinct groups? He was also labeled as African but I don't think his lineage had anything to do with Africa. He just happened to be a darker skinned person.

[swhite]

Afro is a texture of hair. Not all of my people had the same texture hair.

[centecorpvm]

I listened to this video and I am honored you got it spot on

[ramsfire]

Incredible List of Footnote Sources are Difficult to Dispute.

[ImmaBeast]

Not all blacks were from Africa were already here and native to the US

[genzhistorian]

Evan is the goat. Learned so much from this!

[tyrone]

THANKS FOR YOUR INFO..."THE BLACK VETERAN FOR JUSTICE".

[jsyd]

This is an awesome video…. I really appreciate this and the effort you put in . This is so important and irrefutable. Also this is the reason for cutting Black people from their old / ancestors.

[pro-america]

I was really hoping he would talk about how tribes kept black slaves 10 years after the emancipation proclamation.

[dharmon]

Thank you for this information Continue to keep us updated. Knowledge is powerful.

[aguinaldosilva]

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