Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America

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With his investigation of slavery at the Northwest Coast of North The usa, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, reasonably neglected by researchers up to now, fits an appropriate cross-cultural definition of slavery. Arguing that slaves and slavery were central to these hunting-fishing-gathering societies, he points out how essential slaves were to the Northwest Coast economies for their labor and for their value as major items of exchange. Slavery also played an immense role in more famous and continuously analyzed Northwest Coast cultural forms such as the potlatch and the spectacular art style and ritual systems of elite groups.

The book includes detailed chapters on who owned slaves and the relations between masters and slaves; how slaves were procured; transactions in slaves; the nature, use, and value of slave labor; and the role of slaves in rituals. Along with analyzing the entire to be had data, ethnographic and historic, on slavery in traditional Northwest Coast cultures, Donald compares the status of Northwest Coast slaves with that of war captives in other parts of traditional Native North The usa.
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