5/10/2023 0 Comments Citizens creek by lalita tademyIn fact, his ultimate goal is to buy his freedom for his whole family. He has a loving relationship with his wife, Amy, and later, a special relationship with his granddaughter, Rose. Nothing is more important to Cow Tom, though, than his family – his mother, Bella, was sold from Yargee’s plantation, and he makes it his life’s mission to find her. Because of his gift for languages, Cow Tom proves to be quite useful in negotiations with slaveholders and later, with white politicians consequently, his master sends him to help in the Seminole War during the time of Indian Removal. His master is Alabama Creek Chief Yargee, a Creek Indian. Cow Tom (called that because of his innate understanding of cattle), a black man, was born into slavery. The story follows the parallel lives of Cow Tom and his daughter, Rose. Like Tademy’s previous two novels, Cane River and Red River, Citizens Creek is painstakingly researched and serves to inform as well as entertain. The history between the Indian population and black people throughout the 1800s is a little-known one, but it is one that had a significant impact on American history.
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