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Conquered Enemies, Adopted Kin, and Owned People: The Creek Indians and Their Captives
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TO MOST AMERICANS, THE MENTION OF SLAVERY CONJURES HAUNTING images from the antebellum South: black laborers toiling in a field of cotton under the white overseer's lash. While African American enslavement remains one of the most disturbing chapters in the nation's history, chattel slavery as practiced in the South was but one of many forms of bondage in the American past. Africans, Europeans, and Indians all possessed indigenous slavery traditions, though forms varied across space and time. ...
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