Indian slavery in colonial America

"European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonies, and though African slave labor filled many needs, huge numbers of America's indigenous peoples continued to be captured and forced to...

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Contributors: Gallay, Alan.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction :
  • Indian slavery in historical context /
  • Alan Gallay
  • Indian slavery in colonial New England /
  • Margaret Ellen Newell
  • "They shalbe slaves for their lives" : Indian slavery in colonial Virginia /
  • C.S. Everett
  • South Carolina's entrance into the Indian slave trade /
  • Alan Gallay
  • Anxious alliances : Apalachicola efforts to survive the slave trade, 1638-1705 /
  • Joseph Hall
  • Apalachee testimony in Florida : a view of slavery from the Spanish archives /
  • Jennifer Baszile
  • Indian slavery in southeastern Indian and British societies, 1670-1730 /
  • Denise I. Bossy
  • The making of a militaristic slaving society : the Chickasaws and the colonial Indian slave trade /
  • Robbie Ethridge
  • A spectrum of Indian bondage in Spanish Texas /
  • Juliana Barr
  • "We betray our own nation" : Indian slavery and multi-ethnic communities in the southwest borderlands /
  • James F. Brooks
  • "A little flesh we offer you" : the origins of Indian slavery in new France /
  • Brett Rushforth
  • John Askin and Indian slavery at Michilimackinac /
  • E.A.S. Demers.