Food for Thought: Anti-Slavery Movements in the Native and Early American South

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This lecture is a part of our 2024 Food for Thought lunchtime lecture series, presented on Thursday, June 20th, at 12:00pm CT. Christina Snyder presented "Anti-Slavery Movements in the Native and Early American South."
Snyder discussed early attempts by colonists and Native peoples to prohibit or abolish slavery in the early colony of Carolina and how those movements shaped the colonial South. Influenced by Spain’s anti-slavery measures, the Lords Proprietors who ruled Carolina on behalf of England’s King Charles II banned Indigenous enslavement there. Colonists openly defied them, and Native nations devastated by human trafficking also took action during the Yamasee War, which nearly destroyed colonial South Carolina.
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