Stealing Indian Women
Subtitle: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 8, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780252032080
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Indigenous peoples; Slavery & emancipation; Native Americans - History; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; History - General History; Sociology; Mississippi; Native American; Slavery; United States - State & Local - Midwest; Social Science / Native American Studies; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; United States - Colonial Period; History; Indian slaves; Indians, Treatment of; Mississippi River Valley; Women slaves
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 metis (mixed-blood) woodsman named Celadon illuminates race and gender relations, Creole culture, and the lives of Indian slaves--particularly women--in ways never before possible.