![]() ![]() Prospering until the Civil War, the family is driven from their land by Confederate Lower Creeks. ![]() Tademy’s research lends veracity to the tale, which later shifts to the perspective of Rose, Cow Tom’s granddaughter. Cow Tom's hard bargaining earns the family's freedom, but it's a long, hard struggle with prejudice before those with African-American blood are allowed into tribal roles. War over, Cow Tom, his wife, Amy, and daughters Malinda and Maggie are caught up in a desperate river journey to Fort Gibson in eastern Oklahoma. Thomas Jesup as a "linguister" to fight the Second Seminole War. As the Remove begins-Southern tribes being exiled to Indian Territory-Yargee rents Cow Tom to Gen. The young slave Tom is yatika-interpreter-for Alabama Creek chief Yargee, but he’s called Cow Tom for his gift of understanding, hilis haya, of cattle. In her third novel, Tademy ( Red River, 2007, etc.) draws a tale of courage and family loyalty from a dark corner of American history. ![]()
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