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Bibliography

Bibliography

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Selected Bibliography

Beckles, Hilary. Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World. Ian Randle Publishers, 1998.

Bernhard, Virginia. Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. University of Missouri, 1999.

Boissevain, Ethel. “Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to Be Sold as Slaves?” Man in the Northwest 11 (Spring 1981): 103–114.

Brooks, James. Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Cave, Alfred A. The Pequot War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

Carocci, Max. “Written Out of History: Contemporary Native American Narratives of Enslavement.” Anthropology Today 25, no. 3 (n.d.): 18–22.

DeLucia, Christine. “The Memory Frontier: Uncommon Pursuits of Past and Place in the Northeast After King Philip’s War.” Journal of American History 98, no. 4 (March 1, 2012): 975–997.

Desrochers, Robert E.,Jr. “Slave-for-Sale Advertisements and Slavery in Massachusetts, 1704-1781.” The William and Mary Quarterly 59, no. 3 (Jul., 2002): pp. 623-664.

Drake, James David. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Dunn, Richard S. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. Chapel Hill, N.C.: UNC, 2000.

Fickes, Michael L. “‘They could Not Endure that Yoke’: The Captivity of Pequot Women and Children After the War of 1637.” New England Quarterly 73, no. 1 (2000): 58.

Fisher, Linford D. “‘Dangerous Designes’: The 1676 Barbados Act to Prohibit New England Indian Slave Importation.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., 71, no. 1 (January 2014): 99–124.

________. “‘Why Shall Wee Have Peace to Bee Made Slaves’: Indian Surrenderers during and after King Philip’s War.” Ethnohistory 64, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 91–114.

Fitts, Robert K. Inventing New England’s Slave Paradise: Master/slave Relations in Eighteenth-Century Narragansett, Rhode Island. Studies in African American History and Culture. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.

Gallay, Alan. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.

________, ed. Indian Slavery in Colonial America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Greene, Lorenzo J. The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942.

Guasco, Michael. “To ‘Doe some Good upon their Countrymen’: The Paradox of Indian Slavery in Early Anglo-America.” Journal of Social History 41, no. 2 (Winter 2007): 389-411.

Handler, Jerome S. “The Amerindian Slave Population of Barbados in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries.” Caribbean Studies 8, no. 4 (1969): 38–64.

________. “The Barbados Slave Conspiracies of 1675 and 1692.” Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society 36 (1982): 312–333.

________. “Slave Revolts and Conspiracies in Seventeenth-century Barbados.” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 56 (1982): 5–43.

Herndon, Ruth Wallis and John E. Murray. Children Bound to Labor : The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.

Herndon, Ruth Wallis and Ella Wilcox Sekatau. “Pauper Apprenticeship in Narragansett Country : A Different Name for Slavery in Early New England.” Slavery/antislavery in New England. (2005).

Jordan, Winthrop D. “The Influence of the West Indies on the Origins of New England Slavery.” The William and Mary Quarterly 18, no. 2 (1961): 243-250.

Lauber, Almon Wheeler. Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States. New York: Columbia University, 1913.

Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998).

Morgan, Kenneth. Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Newell, Margaret Ellen. Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

________. “The Changing Nature of Slavery in New England, 1670-1720.” In Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, edited by Colin G. Calloway and Neal Salisbury. Boston, MA: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003.

________. “Indian Slavery in Colonial New England.” In Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Allan Gallay. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Peters, J. Douglas. “‘Removing the Heathen’: Changing Motives for Indian Slavery in New Hampshire.” Historical New Hampshire 58, no. 3 (2003): 66–79.

Pratt, Stephanie, and Max Carocci, eds. Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Roediger, David R., and Martin Henry Blatt. The Meaning of Slavery in the North. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.

Rosenthal, Bernard. “Puritan Conscience and New England Slavery.” New England Quarterly 46, no. 1 (1973): 62-81.

Rushforth, Brett. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Sainsbury, John A. “Indian Labor in Early Rhode Island.” New England Quarterly 48, no. 3 (1975).

Silverman, David J. “The Impact of Indentured Servitude on Southern New England Indian Society and Culture, 1680-1810,” New England Quarterly 74 (2001).

Snyder, Christina. Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America. Harvard University Press, 2012.

Sweet, John Wood. Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830. Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Winston, Sanford Richard. Indian Slavery in the Carolina region. Washington, D.C.: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1934.