Stealing Indian Women - Native Slavery in the Illinois Country

Informationen zum Autor Carl J. Ekberg Klappentext 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 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. Zusammenfassung The first history of Indian slavery in the Mississippi Valley during the colonial era

Product details

• Authors: Carl J Ekberg, Carl J. Ekberg
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2010
• EAN: 9780252077234
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07723-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous