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Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
University of Illinois Press, 2009 Paper: 978-0-252-07723-4 | Cloth: 978-0-252-03208-0 Library of Congress Classification E98.S6E32 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 977.300497
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Based almost entirely on original source documents from the United States, France, and Spain, Carl J. Ekberg’s Stealing Indian Women provides an innovative 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. See other books on: Colonial Period (1600-1775) | Ekberg, Carl J. | Indians, Treatment of | Mississippi River Valley | Women slaves See other titles from University of Illinois Press |
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Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Illinois Press, 2009
Paper: 978-0-252-07723-4
Cloth: 978-0-252-03208-0
Paper: 978-0-252-07723-4
Cloth: 978-0-252-03208-0
Based almost entirely on original source documents from the United States, France, and Spain, Carl J. Ekberg’s Stealing Indian Women provides an innovative 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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
