Barbara Krauthamer, professor of history and Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Professor Barbara Krauthamer discusses her book, Black Slaves, Indian Masters, which examines the role of slavery in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations. She explores the tensions brought these Native American tribes by missionaries, trade, and the "civilizing" project of Euro-Americans. The role of slavery as a form of assimilation which Native Americans hoped would enrich them as well as protect their territorial sovereignty. This complicated history is illustrated with all the contradictions and failures which resonate, still, today.