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Stealing Indian women : native slavery in the Illinois Country

Title
Stealing Indian women : native slavery in the Illinois Country / Carl J. Ekberg.
Author
Ekberg, Carl J.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.

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Description
xvi, 236 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Enslaved Indians > Mississippi River Valley > History
  • Enslaved women > Mississippi River Valley > History
  • Indians, Treatment of > Mississippi River Valley > History
  • Indians of North America > Mississippi River Valley > History
  • Mississippi River Valley > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-222) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the Illinois Country -- Indian slavery -- Colonial Louisiana -- French Illinois -- Spanish Illinois -- Couples and couplings -- The Céladon affair -- Ste. Genevieve : the old town -- Colonial revelries -- Indian woman dead -- Indian woman free -- The Black River -- Conclusion : the price of freedom.
Call Number
JGE 07-258
ISBN
  • 025203208X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780252032080 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007019532
OCLC
141851847
Author
Ekberg, Carl J.
Title
Stealing Indian women : native slavery in the Illinois Country / Carl J. Ekberg.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-222) and index.
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JGE 07-258
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