
In Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, historian Tiya Miles identifies fiction as one possible solution to the problem of historical silences in the archival record of American slavery: “It is my belief that imaginative reconstructions of the past, tightly wedded to historical knowledge, can aid us in our quest.

Reviewed by Gaila Sims (University of Texas at Austin)Ĭommissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts.
