Slavery in Indian country
Subtitle: the changing face of captivity in early America
By: Christina Snyder.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780674048904
Subjects: Indian captivities -- Southern States -- History; Indian slaves -- Southern States -- History; Slavery -- Southern States -- History; Indians of North America -- Southern States -- History
Description: Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's pathbreaking book takes a familiar setting for bondage, the American South, and places Native Americans at the center of her engrossing story.-publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Inequality, war, and captivity; title: The Indian slave trade; title: Crying blood and captive death; title: Incorporating outsiders; title: Owned people; title: Violent intimacy; title: Racial slavery; title: Seminoles and African Americans.