Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America

by David J. Silverman

Book Overview

New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expansion. In Red Brethren, David J. Silverman considers the stories of these communities and argues that Indians in early America were racial thinkers in their own right and that indigenous people rallied together as Indians not only in the context...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801444772
• ISBN13: 9780801444777
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher