DOC Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison: [Large Print Edition] by Belle Boyd in History

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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 to the lives of enslaved individuals; this book gives voice to those who lived through the ordeal of slavery and; along the way; shaped French and Native societies.Rather than telling a simple story of colonial domination and Native victimization; Rushforth argues that Indian slavery in New France emerged at the nexus of two very different forms of slavery: one indigenous to North America and the other rooted in the Atlantic world. The alliances that bound French and Natives together forced a century-long negotiation over the nature of slavery and its place in early American society. Neither fully Indian nor entirely French; slavery in New France drew upon and transformed indigenous and Atlantic cultures in complex and surprising ways. Based on thousands of French and Algonquian-language manuscripts archived in Canada; France; the United States and the Caribbean; Bonds of Alliance bridges the divide between continental and Atlantic approaches to early American history. By discovering unexpected connections between distant peoples and places; Rushforth sheds new light on a wide range of subjects; including intercultural diplomacy; colonial law; gender and sexuality; and the history of race.