Posts by: Jeremy Ravi Mumford

Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

On March 22, 2009 By Jeremy Ravi Mumford

By Tiya Miles (University of California Press, 2005)

“Being in possession of a few Black People and being crost in my affections, I debased myself and took one of my black women by the name of Doll, by her I have had these children named as follows...” So begins an 1824 petition by a Cherokee [...]

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Hanuman’s Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey

On April 21, 2008 By Jeremy Ravi Mumford

By Philip Lutgendorf (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Primates are our animal cousins, but most of us know them only on a photo-album basis. In India, people and monkeys live cheek by jowl, and relations are strained. Monkeys are dirty, aggressive pests, pelting pedestrians with nuts and climbing into open windows to grab anything not nailed [...]

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