Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts

✍ Scribed by Max Carocci, Stephanie Pratt (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Series: Studies of the Americas
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Radically rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and past ideas of captivity, adoption, and slavery among Native American societies in an interdisciplinary perspective. Highlights the importance of the interaction between perceptions, representations and lived experience associated with the facts of slavery.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Contextualizing Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery....Pages 1-21
Ripe for Colonial Exploitation: Ancient Traditions of Violence and Enmity as Preludes to the Indian Slave Trade....Pages 23-46
The Emergence of the Colonial South: Colonial Indian Slaving, the Fall of the Precontact Mississippian World, and the Emergence of a New Social Geography in the American South, 1540–1730....Pages 47-64
Southeastern Indian Polities of the Seventeenth Century: Suggestions toward an Analytical Vocabulary....Pages 65-78
From Captives to Kin: Indian Slavery and Changing Social Identities on the Louisiana Colonial Frontier....Pages 79-96
Capturing Captivity: Visual Imaginings of the English and Powhatan Encounter Accompanying the Virginia Narratives of John Smith and Ralph Hamor, 1612–1634....Pages 97-115
Strategies of (Un)belonging: The Captivities of John Smith, Olaudah Equiano, and John Marrant....Pages 117-129
Captive or Captivated: Rethinking Encounters in Early Colonial America....Pages 131-146
A Christian Disposition: Religious Identity in the Meeker Captivity Narrative....Pages 147-166
Visual Representation as a Method of Discourse on Captivity, Focused on Cynthia Ann Parker....Pages 167-183
Epilogue: Reflections and Refractions from the Southwest Borderlands....Pages 185-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-267

✦ Subjects

Anthropology;Political History;Social History;History of the Americas;Ethnicity Studies