Episode 2: The Rise of Greenwood
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The Five Tribes and Oil
In the 18 fifties, a hundred thousand people lived in indian territory, and 14 thousand of them were enslaved. The institution of slavery was important to the five tribes. Without them, without their land, greenwood would never have grown to be what it was. At the same time as all this is happening, emancipation, something else was surfacing too, something really big. Oil. And somebody said, then we put those creeks out there on all that black ort and all that gas. We need to understand what happened in greenwood. And these freedmen are the key to that.
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