To Marry an Indian

Author: Theresa Strouth (ed.) Gaul
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0807856029

To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839

When nineteen-year-old Harriett Gold, from a prominent white family in Cornwall, Connecticut, announced in 1825 her intention to marry a Cherokee man, her shocked family initiated a spirited correspondence debating her decision to marry an Indian. Get To Marry an Indian literature books for free.
Eventually, Gold's family members reconciled themselves to her wishes, and she married Elias Boudinot in 1826. After the marriage, she returned with Boudinot to the Cherokee Nation, where he went on to become a controversial political figure who was editor of the first Native American newspaper. Providing rare firsthand documentation of race relations in the early nineteenth-century United States, this volume collects the Gold family correspondence during the engagement period as well as letters th Check To Marry an Indian our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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Eventually, Gold's family members reconciled themselves to her wishes, and she married Elias Boudinot in 1826 Providing rare firsthand documentation of race relations in the early nineteenth-century United States, this volume collects the Gold family correspondence during the engagement period as well as letters th

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