by Tiya Miles
Potawatomies; captive-taking; du Sable and; Grosse Ile; land cessions; Pontiac’s War; Prophet’s Town; Revolutionary War; Ste. Anne’s Church; Wayne and
press. See newspapers
Proclamation of 1763. See Royal Proclamation of 1763
Prophet’s Town
prostitution
Protestant churches
Protestant missionaries. See also Moravian missionaries
public land. See commons
punishment of slaves
Quebec; city; District of Hesse; James Hull; slaves; War of 1812. See also Upper Canada
Quebec Act
Quinn, Joseph
racialization; of black slaves; of Indians
Raisin River. See River Raisin
Ransom, Daniel
rape
Ratford, Jenkin
Raudot, Jacques
“red” (racial term)
Reed, John
Rémond, Jean Baptiste
reservations. See Indian reservations
retailers. See merchants (retailers)
revolts, slave. See slave revolts
Revolutionary War; black soldiers; Sarah Hull; William Hull. See also Treaty of Paris
Richard, Gabriel
Richard, Marie Suzanne
River Raisin
Robertson, Samuel
Robertson, William
Romain, Jean B.
Roman Catholic Church. See Catholic Church
Royal Navy. See British navy
Royal Proclamation of 1763
Rushforth, Brett
St. Bernard, Charles
St. Clair, Arthur
St. Clair, Arthur, II
St. Clair, William
St. Cosme, Rose
Ste. Anne’s Catholic Church; fire of 1805; James Sterling; Smiths; tobacco chewing in; Treaty of 1817; William Macomb
Ste. Anne’s Street
Saint James Church, Grosse Ile
St. John’s Anglican Church, Sandwich, Ontario
St. Louis
Sandwich, Ontario. See also St. John’s Anglican Church, Sandwich, Ontario
Sault Ste. Marie
Saunt, Claudio
Schenectady, New York. See also Phyn and Ellice Company
Schindler, Jonas
Schuyler, Philip
Scott, Rebecca
sculptures, memorial. See memorial sculptures
Senecas
servants, African American. See African American servants
servants, French. See French servants
servants, Native American. See Native American servants
servitude, indentured. See indenture
Seven Years’ War. See French and Indian War
sexual assault. See rape
sexual slavery and concubinage
Shawnees: Blue Jacket; Pontiac’s War; Revolutionary War; Sally Ainse; Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa; Wayne and
ships. See also Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Shoemaker, Nancy
Sibley, Catherine
Sibley, Ebenezer
Sibley, Henry
Sibley, Sarah Sproat
Sibley, Solomon; co-mayor; Elijah Brush relations; fear of Indian attack; Jones v. Abbott; Lisette Denison relations; prosecutor; purchases; University of Michigan
Sibley family
Simcoe, John Graves
Sinclair, Patrick
Sinha, Manisha
Sioux. See also Dakotas
slave raiding; Henry Bird; Pawnees and
slave revolts
slaves, African and African American. See African and African American slaves
slaves, escaped. See escaped slaves
slaves, inheritance of. See inheritance of slaves
slaves, Native American. See Native American slaves
slaves, punishment of. See punishment of slaves
Smith, Anna
Smith, Antoine
Smith, David William
Smith, Gene Allen
Smith, Milly
Smyth, Richard
Sterling, Angelique Cuillerier
Sterling, James; alcohol control committee; marriage; Ste. Anne’s Church
Stinson, Jennifer
Stockwell, John
Stone, Joel
Supreme Court of Michigan. See Michigan Supreme Court
Swan, Isabella
tanners and tanning
tarring and feathering
taxation
Taylor, Alan
Taylor, Quintard
Taylor, Robert
Tecumseh
Tenskwatawa (Prophet)
Thames River (Canada). See also Fairfield on the Thames
Tippecanoe River
town codes. See ordinances, municipal
town commons. See commons
Three-Fifths Clause (U.S. Constitution)
Treaty of Detroit (1807)
Treaty of 1817
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty of Greenville
Treaty of Paris
Trowbridge, Charles
Trudel, Marcel; Canada’s Forgotten Slaves
Tucker, Catherine. See also Denison v. Tucker
Tucker, Veta Smith
Tucker, William
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Underground Railroad
uniforms
University of Michigan
Upper Canada; Askin family; Denisons; District of Hesse; Elliott; Eustis view; executions; Fairfield; laws and ordinances; Macomb family; Simcoe. See also black militia; Sandwich, Ontario
U.S. Congress; Detroit redesign; Treaty of Ghent
U.S. Constitution. See also Three-Fifths Clause (U.S. Constitution)
U.S.S. Chesapeake. See Chesapeake-Leopard affair
VanderVelde, Lea
Vincennes, Indiana
Virginia
Wallace, George
War of 1812; map; run-up
Washington, George
Washington City (Washington, D.C.)
Watson, Samuel Codes
Watson, William
Wayne, Anthony
Wayne County; censuses and tax lists
Wendat people. See Hurons
wheat
White, Margaret
White, Richard: Middle Ground
Williams, Joel
Williams, John R.
Williams, Lizzie
Williamsburg, Virginia
Wilson, John
Wilson, Stephen
Windsor, Ontario; maps
Wing, Austin E.
Winter, George
Wisconsin
Witgen, Michael
Witherell, James
women, sexual slavery of. See sexual slavery and concubinage
Wood, James
Woodbridge, Dudley
Woodward, Augustus; British occupation and; Denison v. Tucker; Elliott case; fear of Indian attack; Pattinson case; town redesign; University of Michigan; view of black militia; War of 1812
working class
Wyandots. See Hurons (Wyandots)
Wyandotte, Michigan
Wyley, Ann
Yack, John Michel
Yamasee War
Zeisberger, David
About the Author
Tiya Miles is the recipient of a 2011 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” and is the Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor and the Mary Henrietta Graham Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan in the departments of American culture, Afroamerican and African studies, history, and women’s studies and in the Native American Studies Program. She lives in Ann Arbor.
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