The centrality of slavery : empire and enslavement in colonial Illinois and Missouri /
"This book examines how empires, settlers, and enslaved people created, maintained and challenged systems of slavery, and the centrality of imperial state power in present-day Illinois and Missouri. Beginning with French colonizers creating systems of Indigenous and African slavery in the 1720s...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2026]
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| Series: | Early American studies
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| Summary: | "This book examines how empires, settlers, and enslaved people created, maintained and challenged systems of slavery, and the centrality of imperial state power in present-day Illinois and Missouri. Beginning with French colonizers creating systems of Indigenous and African slavery in the 1720s, it concludes with the Missouri Crisis of 1819"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 276 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781512828429 1512828424 |