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Peer reviewedMancall, Peter C. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1993
Colonial accounts depict how the alcohol trade destabilized Indian communities in colonial British America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Despite the social costs of alcohol use within Indian communities, liquor remained a staple of Indian-colonist trade, perhaps because it facilitated the conquest of eastern North America. (LP)
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholic Beverages, Alcoholism, American Indian History
