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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Main Author: Hammond, John Craig, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2026]
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.
Physical Description:276 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781512828429
1512828424