Wednesday 10 February 2010

Indian slave

Renard (Fox), an Indian slave, c. 1732. According to the notes
Most of the 2000 Canadian slaves under the French were Indians from the west, who worked as domestic servants. Slavery in New France was quite small compared with British and French slavery in the rest of the New World. Rochefort, France.

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