Project Gutenberg 2025-05-23 Public domain in the USA. 216 Lauber, Almon Wheeler 1880 1944 Lauber, Almon W. Indian slavery in colonial times within the present limits of the United States $aNew York :$bAlmon Wheeler Lauber, $c1913. deaurider, Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Indian slavery in colonial times within the present limits of the United States" by Almon Wheeler Lauber is a historical study written in the early 20th century. It examines the enslavement of Native Americans by Indigenous societies and by Spanish, French, and especially English colonists, outlining how captivity, trade, and law shaped the institution and how it waned. Drawing on scattered archival sources, the work surveys capture methods, labor uses, legal status, treatment, manumission, and the shift toward African slavery. The opening of this study states its aim: to recover the largely overlooked history of Indian slavery and to emphasize English colonial practice while setting it against Indian, Spanish, and French precedents. It outlines how many Native societies practiced forms of servitude—through gambling losses, famine sales, barter, raids, and war—how captives were used (domestic work, agriculture, hunting, fishing, mining), and how treatment ranged from adoption and kinship-based manumission to mutilation and execution, with women and councils often deciding captives’ fate. It then shows Spaniards embedding enslavement in exploration and conquest, using captives as guides, porters, cooks, and concubines; notes episodic kindness amid coercion; describes a largely ineffective royal effort to end the practice; and portrays mission and presidio systems as de facto coerced labor. Finally, it sketches French practice: initially vague legality later recognized, public indifference, and reliance on war captives, kidnapping, trade by coureurs de bois (including sales to English markets), gifts from allied chiefs, and inheritance through enslaved mothers, with slaves serving as guides, interpreters, and domestics. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/indianslaveryinc00laub 20240518054253lauber 1913 US Reading ease score: 60.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Indians of North America Slavery -- United States Thesis (Ph. D.) Indians, Treatment of -- United States E011 Text Category: History - American Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750) 1190150 2025-07-30T06:54:07.137730 text/html 1109839 2025-05-23T12:33:05 text/html 600100 2025-07-30T06:54:26.555693 application/epub+zip 607147 2025-07-30T06:54:11.256682 application/epub+zip 451155 2025-07-30T06:54:08.935734 application/epub+zip 1274596 2025-07-30T06:54:35.944624 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1221857 2025-07-30T06:54:24.546636 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 744721 2025-07-30T06:54:03.173752 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 724598 2025-05-23T12:33:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14415 2025-07-30T06:54:36.126566 application/rdf+xml 12319 2025-07-30T06:54:09.422712 image/jpeg 2173 2025-07-30T06:54:09.159726 image/jpeg 554324 2025-07-30T06:54:07.206765 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog