From the precolonial era to the late nineteenth century, Native Americans’, Africans’, and Europeans’ understandings of slavery, law, and war influenced their behavior as enemies and as allies in North America. Each had their particular ideas regarding law, warfare, and slavery, and each confronted one another’s strange and familiar ideas of what slavery meant through both conflict and compromise. Explore this history and more in Dr. Newhall's Slavery, Law, and Warfare in North America course.

Dr. Caroline Newhall