Mary Jemison's account of her life with the Senca Indians as told to upstate New York doctor James Everett Seaver in 1824.
True story of murder, captivity, revenge, and escape, set against the fiery backdrop of the French and Indian war. Examines the period in American history when French Catholicism vied for control of the frontier with English Protestantism, and the bloody deeds of Hannah Duston--…
Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's pathbreaking book takes a f…
Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's pathbreaking book takes a f…
Introduction -- Inequality, war, and captivity -- The Indian slave trade -- Crying blood and captive death -- Incorporating outsiders -- Owned people -- Violent intimacy -- Racial slavery -- Seminoles and African Americans.
Introduction -- Inequality, war, and captivity -- The Indian slave trade -- Crying blood and captive death -- Incorporating outsiders -- Owned people -- Violent intimacy -- Racial slavery -- Seminoles and African Americans.
Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's pathbreaking book takes a f…
