"Removing the heathen" : changing motives for Indian slavery in New Hampshire / J. Douglas Peters.

Title:

"Removing the heathen" : changing motives for Indian slavery in New Hampshire / J. Douglas Peters.

Author:

Peters, J. Douglas, 1948-

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Physical Description:

p. 66-79.

Source:

Vol. 58, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2003) Historical New Hampshire.

Description:

European motives for enslaving New Hampshire Native Americans varied over time. At the beginning of the 17th century, Europeans seized Native Americans in an effort to obtain information, but by the 1620's Europeans seized Indians in order to sell them or to use their labor. After King Philip's War (1675-76), Europeans captured Native Americans and removed them from the area. Indian attacks on New England settlements continued to play havoc with frontier communities in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, but once the wars ended, Native Americans ceased to be a significant threat to Europeans in New Hampshire. In 1820, New Hampshire declared that "the immutable law of nature prohibited slavery." The 1840 census was the last to report a slave in the state. Of the few slaves remaining in New Hampshire by then, it is unlikely that any were Native American.

Language:

English.

Subjects:

Slavery Indians of North America New Hampshire. , Indians of North America History. New Hampshire

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