European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher
Columbus's arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with
European colonies, and though African slave labor filled many
needs, huge numbers of America's indigenous peoples continued to be
captured and forced to work as slaves. Although central to the
process of colony building in what became the United States, this
phenomena has received scant attention from historians. Indian
Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, examines the
complicated dynamics of Indian enslavement. How and why Indians
became both slaves of the Europeans and suppliers of slavery's
victims is the subject of this book. The essays in this collection
use Indian slavery as a lens through which to explore both Indian
and European societies and their interactions, as well as relations
between and among Native groups.
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