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Book Review
Canada and the United States
Alan Gallay. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 16701717. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 444. $45.00.
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Do not be misled by the title of Alan Gallay's new book. This is not just, or even primarily, a study of the remarkably little-known enslavement of thousands of Native Americans in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Indeed, readers hoping for details on that ugly commerce must wait until the penultimate chapter. Instead, the book attempts a grand reinterpretation of the origins of the colonial Southeast, with a system of Indian-European relations based on slave raiding at the center of the story. |
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