Bonds of alliance : indigenous and Atlantic slaveries in New France / Brett Rushforth.
2012
HT1051 .R87 2012 (Mapit)
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Bonds of alliance : indigenous and Atlantic slaveries in New France / Brett Rushforth.
Author
Rushforth, Brett.
ISBN
9780807835586 alk. paper
0807835587 alk. paper
0807835587 alk. paper
Publication Details
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ; Williamsburg, Va. : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, ©2012.
Language
English
Description
x, 406 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
HT1051 .R87 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3/6209710162
Summary
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the dynamics of this system from its origins to the end of French colonial rule. Balancing a vast geographic and chronological scope with careful attention to the lives of enslaved individuals, this book gives voice to those who lived through the ordeal of slavery and, along the way, shaped French and Native societies. Rather than telling a simple story of colonial domination and Native victimization, Rushforth argues that Indian slavery in New France emerged at the nexus of two very different forms of slavery: one indigenous to North America and the other rooted in the Atlantic world. The alliances that bound French and Natives together forced a century-long negotiation over the nature of slavery and its place in early American society. Neither fully Indian nor entirely French, slavery in New France drew upon and transformed indigenous and Atlantic cultures in complex and surprising ways.
Based on thousands of French and Algonquian-language manuscripts archived in Canada, France, the United States and the Caribbean, Bonds of Alliance bridges the divide between continental and Atlantic approaches to early American history. By discovering unexpected connections between distant peoples and places, Rushforth sheds new light on a wide range of subjects, including intercultural diplomacy, colonial law, gender and sexuality, and the history of race."--Univ. of North Carolina Press.
Based on thousands of French and Algonquian-language manuscripts archived in Canada, France, the United States and the Caribbean, Bonds of Alliance bridges the divide between continental and Atlantic approaches to early American history. By discovering unexpected connections between distant peoples and places, Rushforth sheds new light on a wide range of subjects, including intercultural diplomacy, colonial law, gender and sexuality, and the history of race."--Univ. of North Carolina Press.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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Table of Contents
Prologue: Halter and shackles
I make him my dog/my slave
The most ignoble and scandalous kind of subjection
Like Negroes in the islands
Most of them were sold to the French
The custom of the country
The Indian is not like the Negro
Of the Indian race
Appendix A: Algonquian language sources: summary and sample word list
Appendix B: "Ordinance rendered on the subject of the Negroes and the Indians called panis"
Appendix C: Notes on the demography of enslaved Indians.
I make him my dog/my slave
The most ignoble and scandalous kind of subjection
Like Negroes in the islands
Most of them were sold to the French
The custom of the country
The Indian is not like the Negro
Of the Indian race
Appendix A: Algonquian language sources: summary and sample word list
Appendix B: "Ordinance rendered on the subject of the Negroes and the Indians called panis"
Appendix C: Notes on the demography of enslaved Indians.