Red Indians, Black Slavery and White Racism
America's Slaveholding Indians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2730652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William G Mcloughlin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 367 |
| Publication date | 1974-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2711653 |
| OpenAlex | W2315071654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
North America.' None of them has been really answered yet-or rather, we have contradictory answers so far. Some historians have argued that until whites interfered the Indians were generally friendly toward blacks; others have argued that the Indians always considered black people as the allies of the whites and hence feared and disliked them; still others have said that the Indians learned to look upon black people the same way white people did and hence considered them to be little more than another form of property, like horses and cattle. Some historians have said that various Indian tribes in North America were generally friendly toward runaway black slaves and provided a refuge for them. Others say that the Indians usually joined the white slavehunters in tracking down runaways and returned them to their masters for the rewards offered. Some historians say that Indians never killed, tortured or scalped slaves in warfare; others say there is evidence they did all three. These contradictory answers to black-Indian relations (especially during
Political science · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2017 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |