May 16, 2003
The Indigenous Slaves of the American South
Historians have long known that in the early American South, Indian tribes often conducted slaving raids on other tribes, on behalf of Europeans and sometimes accompanied by them. Alan Gallay is the first to detail that history. In The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (Yale University Press), the Western Washington University historian shows that the trade was so extensive that it depopulated Florida and much of Georgia and South Carolina of
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