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NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY

I have elected to refer to people of African descent in this book as “black” rather than “African American” because they were not all born in the Americas. I refer to those who were enslaved as “enslaved” persons rather than “slaves” because slavery was a social and legal condition put upon them by whites, not an essential aspect of their being or identity. I refer to people indigenous to North America as “Native Americans” or “indigenous” people or (when accurate) by tribal affiliation (such as Seminole) but rarely as “Indians.” I use “Indian” only when referring to U.S. policies and practices that used that label in the nineteenth century, such as “Indian removal” policy or “U.S. Indian agent.”