| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country. By Carl J. Ekberg. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xviii, 236 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03208-0.)

Few topics in early American history are as difficult to unravel as the trade in native slaves. Carl J. Ekberg's Stealing Indian Women follows recent work on the slave trade undertaken by Alan Gallay, Brett Rushforth, and James Brooks. A paucity of sources makes it almost impossible for Ekberg to write definitively about the Illinois slave trade, much less on women's places within it, so he tackles his subject in an unconventional way by dividing his book into two parts. The first focuses on the creation and development of the native slave trade under the French and Spanish regimes, while the second examines the "Céladon affair," a murder that embroiled enslaved native people, a trader, and highly placed officials in the Spanish government.

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