Part 1: SummaryGallay Alan’s book, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 examines how Africans shaped their lives as well as their masters. The author argues that the desire to manage Indian labor was connected to the development of the plantations as...

First European permanent settlements appeared in Canada only in the 17th-18th century, whereas Native people had already lived there for thousands of years. Traditionally, it is believed that an interaction between them was focused on trading and friendly cooperation. Still, the consequences of this process are ambivalent, especially for the...

Many white people wanted Native Americans to be removed from their land in the South in the 1830’s out of greed, selfishness, and ignorance. The white people did not understand the Native Americans, and more often than not, they had no desire to get to know them. The missionaries and...