Race Frontiers: Indian Slavery in Colonial New England

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2006-02-27

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Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies

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Historians of slavery and the “construction of race” in America — the emergence of theories of racial inferiority and superiority and the translation of racialized categories into law and other institutions — generally focus on the encounter between Europeans and Africans. Yet, Native Americans constituted the vast majority of those enslaved by colonial regimes in the Americas prior to 1700, and Indians played a critical role in the creation

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slavery, United States of America, American Indians, Native Americans, racialization

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