| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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Book Review

Stealing Indian Women: Indian Slavery in the Illinois Country. By Carl J. Ekberg. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi + 236 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $38.00.)

Stealing Indian Women explores the origins of Indian slavery in the Illinois territory, the sociopolitical repercussions of maintaining the institution, and the special hardship facing Indian women slaves. Ekberg grapples with notions of race, gender, and the sometimes-arbitrary nature of empire-building in the colonial era. Retelling the details of a contemporary criminal case, Ekberg dives into the daily lives of slaves, explores métis culture, and reminds readers that the frontier was harshest for women. He goes on to reconstruct the social lives of African and Indian slaves in St. Genevieve and Kaskaskia, model communities for slavery in the region. Ekberg concludes with an assessment of the impact of slavery on both slaves and free persons, and of how they managed to shape their lives within that context on the colonial frontier.

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