197 Native American Slavery in New France
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
When we think about early American slavery, our minds evoke images of plantations where enslaved men and women were forced to labor in agricultural fields and inside the homes of wealthy Americans.
These images depict the practice of chattel slavery; a practice where early Americans treated slaves as property that they could buy, sell, trade, and use as they would real estate and draught animals.
But, did you know that some early Americans practiced a different type of slavery?
We investigate the practice of Native American or indigenous slavery, a little-known aspect of early American history, with Brett Rushforth, author of Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France.
This episode originally published as Episode 064.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/197
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| 0:00.0 | Ben Franklin's World is a production of the |
| 0:02.4 | O'Mohandro Institute. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to Ben Franklin's World, |
| 0:07.2 | podcast about early American history with Liz Kovart. |
| 0:11.2 | The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can |
| 0:15.2 | affect the better future. Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical |
| 0:19.9 | people and |
| 0:24.1 | now here's your host Liz Koval. |
| 0:26.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 197 of Ben Franklin's world. |
| 0:31.6 | The podcast dedicated to helping you, learn more about how the people |
| 0:35.8 | and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in. |
| 0:40.6 | Our four episodes series about different Native American peoples and their interactions with different European colonists continues this week |
| 0:46.9 | with an exploration of the origins and development of the Native American slave trade |
| 0:51.6 | which span the geography of the Great Lakes, New France, |
| 0:54.9 | and Canada, and the Caribbean. |
| 0:57.7 | Now, if you'll recall from our conversation from last week when we revisited with our friend |
| 1:01.8 | Alejandro deibkovsky. |
| 1:03.0 | Native Americans in the early North American Southeast |
| 1:06.0 | worked to overcome the severe consequences colonization wrought on their communities |
| 1:10.0 | by gathering and exchanging information in ways that allowed them to participate in these changes. |
| 1:15.0 | In fact, we were able to see how information and the ability to acquire and exchange it can reveal the power Native Americans had. |
| 1:24.0 | Exploring information allows us to see the different relationships they chose to develop and |
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