BUFFALO

ALSO KNOWN AS THE AMERICAN BISON

Green Trice was born a slave. He became a soldier for the Union during the Civil War, and then later a Buffalo Soldier, one of the black soldiers sent to fight the United States’ wars against Native Americans. He was something stolen from birth, given to a sort of freedom, which he then for a time loaned to the United States in service of enslaving someone else. They fed him and clothed him and sent him to West Texas, where he was stationed.

It’s not clear exactly where he served.