"Come Recently from Guinea": Control and Power in the African-Descended Illinois Country, 1719-1848.
During the eighteenth century, African slavery played a fundamental role in the lives of settlers in the Illinois Country. The master class viewed slavery in terms of control meaning the complete domination of the slave system. Lawmakers, first the French bureaucracy and later (to a lesser extent)...
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