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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (American Crossroads) True She has visions of theThis beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master and slave and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, experienced key events in American historyincluding slavery,