Christina Snyder's Slavery In Indian Country: The Changing Face Of Captivity?

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Christina Snyder is arguing in this book that we need to re-imagine the history of captivity by understanding the historical evolution of this practice within the Native Americans. In the introduction of this book Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America, we can see what Snyder is trying to say just by reading the book title we cann assume what she is going to talk about, but first let me explain the meaning of captivity the defenition would be the condition of being imprisoned or confined in simple words the state or period of being held, imprisoned, enslaved or confined. Her goal of this book is the following "this story moves into the heart of Indian country and explores how region's Native Americans practiced

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