Ripe for Colonial Exploitation: Ancient Traditions of Violence and Enmity as Preludes to the Indian Slave Trade

Abstract

This chapter’s perspectives are broad geographically and culturally, and centuries-deep in time, providing background contexts for later chapters dealing with more recent times and more restricted places and topics. It emphasizes my main areas of archaeological experience in the Lower Mississippi Valley (henceforth LMV), Southeast, and Midwest (figure 1.1), with comparative glances toward the Eastern Seaboard, and westward to the Plains and the Southwest.¹