| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Leland Donald. Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1997. Pp. xvi, 379. $40.00.

This book is an informative and provocative contribution to the history and anthropology of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Leland Donald analyzes in depth the role of slavery in Northwest Coast culture and economic life and argues that our understandings of these peoples are flawed and limited if we do not allow for the evident importance of slaves in indigenous life over many centuries, until the irreversible changes of the late 1800s. Donald presents his arguments clearly and carefully with extensive documentation. Parts one and two move from an overview of the cultures considered, a review of previous studies, and a useful discussion of definitional problems, methods, and sources to a description of slaves and their origins, labor, economic value, and ritual roles and an assessment of the scale of slavery in the region. In parts three and four, Donald examines the antiquity of Northwest Coast slavery and how it changed in the period 1780–1880, draws some comparisons to other Native American societies, and evaluates the place of slavery in Northwest Coast culture. . . .

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