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Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
Stealing Indian Women Native Slavery in the Illinois Country Author:Carl J. Ekberg 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... more » 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.« less