Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Contextualizing Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery....Pages 1-21
Ripe for Colonial Exploitation: Ancient Traditions of Violence and Enmity as Preludes to the Indian Slave Trade....Pages 23-46
The Emergence of the Colonial South: Colonial Indian Slaving, the Fall of the Precontact Mississippian World, and the Emergence of a New Social Geography in the American South, 1540–1730....Pages 47-64
Southeastern Indian Polities of the Seventeenth Century: Suggestions toward an Analytical Vocabulary....Pages 65-78
From Captives to Kin: Indian Slavery and Changing Social Identities on the Louisiana Colonial Frontier....Pages 79-96
Capturing Captivity: Visual Imaginings of the English and Powhatan Encounter Accompanying the Virginia Narratives of John Smith and Ralph Hamor, 1612–1634....Pages 97-115
Strategies of (Un)belonging: The Captivities of John Smith, Olaudah Equiano, and John Marrant....Pages 117-129
Captive or Captivated: Rethinking Encounters in Early Colonial America....Pages 131-146
A Christian Disposition: Religious Identity in the Meeker Captivity Narrative....Pages 147-166
Visual Representation as a Method of Discourse on Captivity, Focused on Cynthia Ann Parker....Pages 167-183
Epilogue: Reflections and Refractions from the Southwest Borderlands....Pages 185-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-267