Contribution to Book
Slavery, Household Production and Demography on the Southern Northwest Coast: Cables, Tacking and Ropewalks.
Invisible Citizens: Captives and Their Consequences
(2008)
Abstract
This chapter is about the role of slaves and slavery in the household and prestige economies of complex
hunter-gatherers in the Greater Lower Columbia region (GLCR) (Hajda 1984) of western North America (Figure 6.1). This region is part of the southern Northwest Coast. Northwest Coast slavery is one of the best-known examples of slavery in a non-state, non-agricultural context, and in the subject of a major book (Donald 1997). Hajda (2005) examined slavery on the lower Columbia River in response to Donald. Contrasting views of the social role of Northwest Coast slaves see them either as markers of the prestige and power of their owners, or as essential labor in the production system that supported Northwest Coast elites.
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Disciplines
Publication Date
2008
Editor
Catherine M. Cameron
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Citation Information
Ames, Kenneth M. 2008. Slavery, Household Production, and Demogtaphy on the Southern Northwest
Coast: Cables, Tacking, and Ropewalking. In Invisible Citizens: Captives and Their Consequences,
edited by Catherine M. Cameron, pp. 138-158. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.