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Almon Wheeler Lauber
1880–1944
Best known for a pioneering 1913 study of Native American enslavement in colonial North America, this early twentieth-century historian dug into a part of American history that many writers of his era barely addressed. His work remains of interest to readers tracing the legal and social history of slavery in the colonies.
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Indian slavery in colonial times within the present limits of the United States
by Almon Wheeler Lauber
About the author
Published in 1913, Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States was issued through Columbia University’s Studies in History, Economics and Public Law series and is identified in library records as Lauber’s Ph.D. work. In its preface, he describes the book as an effort to bring attention to a neglected side of early American history: the enslavement of Native Americans.
Surviving catalog and library sources confirm only a limited public record about him, but they consistently identify him as Almon Wheeler Lauber and date him as 1880–1944. His reputation today rests mainly on that major study, which pulled together colonial laws, trade practices, and regional case studies into one sustained historical account.
For modern listeners, Lauber’s appeal is clear: he wrote with the ambition to document a difficult subject carefully and at length, and his book still offers a window into how scholars in the early 1900s approached colonial American history.