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a little story by a TWSmith: Sam Colbert was the big time Choctaw Indian Slave owner that owned many slaves down in arond Choctaw county were my relatives were from. There is no other Sam Colbert that old I could find but Sam Colbert the Choctaw Indian. Many people have told me that indeed Sam Colbert the slave owner was the father of Edmund Colbert (my Great-Great Grandfather). I know Indians and Whites fathered many children by slaves.

Choctaw Indians as Slaveowners

Brought to Indian Territory in the 1830's Black Choctaws arrived with the Choctaw Indians as slaves. Prior to removal the Choctaws had been exposed to Africans in their native homeland of Mississippi. Slaves were a part of the Europeran culture to which the Choctaws would later adapt. Slavery would be one of the institutions the nation would adopt. Chief Moshulatubbee had slaves ....

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