Escaping Slavery is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America.

Antonio T. Bly is Peter H. Shattuck Endowed Chair in Colonial American History at California State University, Sacramento.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Social Death in the Lands of Their Forefathers

A Note on Notices

A Note on Newspapers

Chapter 1: New England Colonies

Chapter 2: Mid-Atlantic Colonies

Chapter 3: Southern Colonies

Appendix A: Advertisements for Mustees

Appendix B: As the Law Directs: Social Death in Julians Massachusetts

Appendix C: Julians Story as Broadsides Ephemera

Appendix D: Julians Story Memorialized

Appendix E: Timeline of Julians Story

Appendix F: Julian the Indian in Court Records

Appendix G: Graphic Representation of Native American Fugitives

Appendix H: Public Days in Julians Massachusetts: Advertising Native American Slavery,

Servitude, and Social Death in Eighteenth-Century America

Glossary

Index

About the Author