Patrick Minges

{{short description|American historian}}

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Patrick Neal Minges (35), is an American author and historian specializing in the cultural interactions among Native Americans and Africans. With several books to his credit, he continues to write and teach.{{Cite web |url=http://www.shiftingborders.ku.edu/presentations/minges.html |title=Presentation |publisher=ku.edu |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=http://are.as.wvu.edu/minges.htm |title=All my Slaves, whether Negroes, Indians, Mustees, Or Molattoes |publisher=wvu.edu |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}{{psc|date=November 2023}}{{dead link|date=November 2023}}{{cite journal |last1=Minges |first1=Patrick |title=Beneath the Underdog: Race, Religion, and the Trail of Tears |journal=The American Indian Quarterly |date=2001 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=453–479 |id={{Project MUSE|262}} |doi=10.1353/aiq.2001.0053 |s2cid=162245866 }}{{psc|date=November 2023}}

Education

Minges graduated from East Carolina University with a master's in Counseling. He then earned a M.Div and Ph.D. at the Union Theological Seminary.

Writing career

Minges is the author of several books,"[http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20061102/NEWS/611020345 Teacher publishes third book]", The-Dispatch.com, November 2, 2006. Retrieved November 16, 2013 most of which deal with the various Native American tribes of North America, their long histories and their rich cultures.

Books

  • Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People 1855-1867 (2003)
  • Black Indian Slave Narratives (2004)
  • Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery (2006)

References