Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France

by Brett Rushforth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469613867
• ISBN13: 9781469613864
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"