...Using archaeology, ritual, and linguistics to supplement the observations of captives and other colonists, this chapter attempts to trace the contours of indigenous slavery among the central Algonquian and Siouan peoples of the Pays d'en Haut. These sources can show patterns of enslavement...

... with historical matter, the embodied performance of history, and the reconfiguring of domestic spaces and family formations in relation to women's sensual and intellectual lives. Architectural restoration Baker C Alice Captives female Coleman Emma Lewis Deerfield Massachusetts Heritage tourism Lane Susan...

...This chapter charts the transition of women prisoners from sexually integrated railroad camps, brickyards, and mines into feminine carceral spaces, narrating the life-world of female captives detained within these gender exclusive settlements. By 1899, Georgia's convict lease system...

... of captives to colonial merchants and their return to sea within days or weeks of their first arrival in America. The chapter considers one source that provides evidence of the African captives’ actual journeys: the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (also know as Gustavus Vassa). Based on Equiano’s eyewitness...

... and Portuguese. The captives were enslaved in Africa for sale to Atlantic traders and then seized in American waters by pirates for delivery to a range of colonies. As a result, many Africans arriving in the Americas found themselves the subject of illicit trade. The chapter discusses the implications...

...This book, all throughout, has highlighted common features among the texts under study. Nevertheless, the captives and authors teach us to embrace, rather than elide, distance and difference. Although many of the authors coincide in identifying, to some degree, with European or Euro-American...

...This chapter discusses the colonial outposts of the Pays d'en Haut and their ways of domesticating captives. Like indigenous slaves in Indian villages, French-owned slaves in the Pays d'en Haut were predominantly women and children. Slaves were incorporated into households to serve their masters...

...This chapter focuses on the legal slave trade between 1640 and 1700. It examines the factors that inhibited the development of more regular intercolonial trade involving African captives, and how the trading of enslaved people enhanced—and was enhanced by—the trade in nonhuman goods...

...Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, this book explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The practice of captivity attests to the violence...