Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country

Type

Book

Authors

Ekberg ( Carl J. Ekberg )

ISBN 10

025203208X

ISBN 13

9780252032080

Tags

Native American, Abolition, Colonial Period, State & Local, Women in History, Native American Studies, Discrimination & Racism

Description

The first history of Indian slavery in the Mississippi Valley during the colonial era. Based almost entirely on original source documents from the United States, France, and Spain, Carl J. Ekberg's Stealing Indian Women provides a novel overview of Indian slavery in the Mississippi Valley. His detailed study of a fascinating and convoluted criminal case involving various slave women and a métis (mixed-blood) woodsman named Céladon illuminates race and gender relations, Creole culture, and the lives of Indian slaves--particularly women--in ways never before possible. - from Amzon

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