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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 work as slaves. Although central to the process of colony building in what became the United States, this phenomena has received scant attention from historians.
Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, examines the complicated dynamics of Indian enslavement. How and why Indians became both slaves of the Europeans and suppliers of slavery's victims is the subject of this book. The essays in this collection use Indian slavery as a lens through which to explore both Indian and European societies and their interactions, as well as relations between and among Native groups.
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 work as slaves. Although central to the process of colony building in what became the United States, this phenomena has received scant attention from historians.
Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, examines the complicated dynamics of Indian enslavement. How and why Indians became both slaves of the Europeans and suppliers of slavery's victims is the subject of this book. The essays in this collection use Indian slavery as a lens through which to explore both Indian and European societies and their interactions, as well as relations between and among Native groups.
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Introduction: Indian Slavery in Historical Context
Alan Gallay
1. Indian Slavery in Colonial New England
Margaret Ellen Newell
2. “They shalbe slaves for their lives”: Indian Slavery in Colonial Virginia
Chris Everett
3. South Carolina’s Entrance into the Indian Slave Trade
Alan Gallay
4. Anxious Alliances: Apalachicola Efforts to Survive the Slave Trade, 16381705
Joseph Hall
5. Apalachee Testimony in Florida: A View of Slavery from the Spanish Archives
Jennifer Baszile
6. Indian Slavery in Southeastern Indian and British Societies, 16701730
Denise I. Bossy
7. The Making of a Militaristic Slaving Society: The Chickasaws and the Colonial Indian Slave Trade
Robbie Ethridge
8. A Spectrum of Indian Bondage in Spanish Texas
Juliana Barr
9. "We Betray Our Own Nation": Indian Slavery and Multi-ethnic Communities in the Southwest Borderlands
James F. Brooks
10. “A Little Flesh We Offer You”: The Origins of Indian Slavery in New France
Brett Rushforth
11. John Askin and Indian Slavery at Michilimackinac
E. A. S. Demers
List of Contributors
Index
Alan Gallay is a professor of history at Texas Christian University. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717, winner of the 2003 Bancroft Prize, and Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528–1861.
"A splendid anthology, full of rigorously researched and strongly
written essays that will rapidly become must reading for historians
of early America."—P. Harvey, CHOICE
"These powerful and well-written essays, collected in a clearly
organized volume, shed valuable light on a long-neglected aspect of
colonial history. Indian slavery can no longer be ignored."—Mikaëla
M. Adams, North Carolina Historical Review
"This collection brings much needed scholarly attention to the many
faces of Indian slavery and hopefully indicates a growing interest
on an exciting topic."—Janne Lahti, Southwestern Historical
Quarterly
"Indian slavery was a real, prolonged, contradictory, catastrophic,
and essential facet of native history and American colonial
history. Unlike Hernando de Soto's slaving and stealing expedition
in the mid-sixteenth-century Southeast, this collection leaves us
with a wealth of pearls."—Tiya Miles, Journal of American
History
"This volume is valuable to students and scholars who study North
American Indians, New World slavery, European expansion and
colonization, and the history of colonial North America more
generally."—Heidi Scott Giusto, Florida Historical Quarterly
"This is a tremendously valuable book. . . . There is no better
single-volume introduction to the history of Indian slavery in
early America. All serious students of early American history, the
colonial South, and slavery in general will benefit from time spent
with this edited collection."—Jon Parmenter, Journal of Southern
History
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