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Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
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About Bonds Of Alliance: Indigenous And Atlantic
Product Description In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the dynamics of this system from its origins to the end of French colonial rule. Balancing a vast geographic and chronological scope with careful attention to the lives of enslaved individuals, this book gives voice to those who lived through the ordeal of slavery and, along the way, shaped French and Native societies. Rather than telling a simple story of colonial domination and Native victimization, Rushforth argues that Indian slavery in New France emerged at the nexus of two very different forms of slavery: one indigenous to North America and the other rooted in the Atlantic world. The alliances that bound French and Natives together forced a century-long negotiation over the nature of slavery and its place in early American society. Neither fully Indian nor entirely French, slavery in New France drew upon and transformed indigenous and Atlantic cultures in complex and surprising ways. Based on thousands of French and Algonquian-language manuscripts archived in Canada, France, the United States and the Caribbean, Bonds of Alliance bridges the divide between continental and Atlantic approaches to early American history. By discovering unexpected connections between distant peoples and places, Rushforth sheds new light on a wide range of subjects, including intercultural diplomacy, colonial law, gender and sexuality, and the history of race. Review A brilliant, bold, and remarkable journey into the Indian slave system of New France.-- American Historical Review Slavery is at once ubiquitous and highly localized in this masterly work by Brett Rushforth. . . . Bonds of Alliance engages with the historiographies of native studies, early America, early modern Europe, and the history of slavery, and it enriches them all.-- Journal of American History Rushforth unravels a complex and diverse skein of social, legal, and diplomatic practices that bound Native Americans and their French counterparts. . . [and] makes several significant contributions to the field. -- Journal of Southern History [A] sharp and superb study. . . . This book challenges us to seriously re-think slavery's role, and the history of race, in French colonial projects in early Canada.-- Histoire sociale/Social History A creative combination of linguistic, archaeological, and documentary evidence. . . . It is quite amazing how much Rushforth has found. . . . Everyone interested in the history of American colonialism and slavery should read this book. Its valuable reorienting effects. . . serve as a reminder that new histories can always be found in familiar places.-- Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society Rushforth's sweeping interpretation will intrigue scholars and casual readers interested in Midwestern history.-- Middle West Review [A] compelling new study. . . . A landmark of historical interpretation.-- Journal of Illinois History Artfully conceived and engagingly written." --H-Net Reviews Through his exhaustive research and attention to larger connections, Rushforth provides perhaps the most compelling account yet of the significance of Indian slavery to early American and Atlantic histories. . . . A must-read for historians of slavery, early American history, French colonial history, Atlantic history, and American Indian history alike.-- William and Mary Quarterly Rushforth's research is impressive. . . and the writing vividly brings to life the world of the Indian slaves in New France. . . . A well-crafted, detailed history and exciting narrative.-- H-France Will surely take its rightful place beside other required readings for anyone studying the nature of Indian slavery, Indian-French relatio
