A Sketch of the Life of Okah Tubbee, alias, William Chubbee, Son of the Head Chief, Mosholoeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians

Springfield, MA: Printed for Okah Tubbee, by H.S. Taylor, 1848. 84pp. 12mo. Publisher's green wrappers, rear wrapper torn with loss. 84pp. 12mo. This account by Chubbee describes how he was kidnapped as a child and raised by the slaves of a Natchez plantation owner. While his Indian heritage seems to have been recognized by his captors (Chubbee believed he was the son of a Choctaw chief), he was treated as a slave, forced to work and often whipped, until he escaped. Eventually he claims to have gotten a private act of the state legislature to recognize him as a free man and not subject to any laws governing Blacks. He found work as a musician for a time, living between Natchez and New Orleans. Field 1579; Howes T377; Rader 110; Sabin 97294