Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts

M. Carocci, S. Pratt, M. Carocci, S. Pratt

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780230115057
• eBook ISBN: 9781137010520
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

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

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction: Contextualizing Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery
• Chapter 1 Ripe for Colonial Exploitation: Ancient Traditions of Violence and Enmity as Preludes to the Indian Slave Trade
• Chapter 2 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
• Chapter 3 Southeastern Indian Polities of the Seventeenth Century: Suggestions toward an Analytical Vocabulary
• Chapter 4 From Captives to Kin: Indian Slavery and Changing Social Identities on the Louisiana Colonial Frontier
• Chapter 5 Capturing Captivity: Visual Imaginings of the English and Powhatan Encounter Accompanying the Virginia Narratives of John Smith and Ralph Hamor, 1612–1634
• Chapter 6 Strategies of (Un)belonging: The Captivities of John Smith, Olaudah Equiano, and John Marrant
• Chapter 7 Captive or Captivated: Rethinking Encounters in Early Colonial America
• Chapter 8 A Christian Disposition: Religious Identity in the Meeker Captivity Narrative
• Chapter 9 Visual Representation as a Method of Discourse on Captivity, Focused on Cynthia Ann Parker
• Epilogue Reflections and Refractions from the Southwest Borderlands
• Notes on Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index