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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ekberg, Carl J. Stealing Indian women. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007 (OCoLC)608207256 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carl J Ekberg |
| ISBN: | 9780252032080 025203208X |
| OCLC Number: | 141851847 |
| Description: | xvi, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Colonial Louisiana -- French Illinois -- Spanish Illinois -- Couples and couplings -- Ste. Genevieve : the old town -- Colonial revelries -- Indian woman dead -- Indian woman free -- The Black river. |
| Responsibility: | Carl J. Ekberg. |
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Abstract:
The first history of Indian slavery in the Mississippi Valley during the colonial era
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"Stealing Indian Women possesses all the qualities that have become synonymous with Ekberg's work: groundbreaking and meticulous research, engaging prose, and a unique ability to capture a sense of place and time. His richly textured account reveals practices at odds with long-held suppositions about Indian slavery in the Illinois country and, most important of all, he succeeds in attaching human faces to an institution that has been little noticed and even less understood." William E. Foley, author of Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark Read more...
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- Indian slaves -- Mississippi River Valley -- History.
- Women slaves -- Mississippi River Valley -- History.
- Indians, Treatment of -- Mississippi River Valley -- History.
- Mississippi River Valley -- Race relations.
- Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- History.
- Indianerin.
- Sklaverei.
- Illinois.
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