Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
by Carl J. Ekberg
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible: Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 025203208X
- ISBN 13
- 9780252032080
- Seller
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Smyrna, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
University of Illinois Press, 2007. Hardback. Collectible: Good/Very Good. !st Edition, 1st Printing. GOOD with pencil underlines throughout and a few instances of marginalia. Dust jacket if very good. Binding it tight and square. . . . . . . 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 convoluted criminal case involving various slave women and a metis (mixed-blood) woodsman named Celadon illuminates race and gender relations, Creole culture, and the lives of Indian slaves--particularly women--in ways never before possible. . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * PART ONE - INDIAN SLAVERY: 1.) Colonial Louisiana -- 2.) French Illinois -- 3.) Spanish Illinois -- 4.) Couples and couplings ------ * PART: TWO - THE CELADON AFFAIR: 5.) Ste. Genevieve : the old town -- 6.) Colonial revelries -- 7.) Indian woman dead -- 8.) Indian woman free -- 9.) The Black river
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antique Mall Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2312300011
- Title
- Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
- Author
- Carl J. Ekberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible: Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 025203208X
- ISBN 13
- 9780252032080
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2007019532
- X weight
- 19 oz
Terms of Sale
Antique Mall Books, LLC
About the Seller
Antique Mall Books, LLC
About Antique Mall Books, LLC
In March of 2023, after 14 years in Steubenville, Ohio, we sold our brick-and-mortar bookstore and moved back to Georgia. We understand both the used and collectible book business along with customer service. We will be happy to provide you with a quality book if you find one of our offerings worthy of being added to your library. We will provide pictures if you do not see one in our listing. We strive to have detailed and accurate listings, and when we sell a book, we do our best to ship it within 24 hours.
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...