William S. Kiser

Borderlands of Slavery

The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest

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Produktbeschreibung

Borderlands of Slavery explores how the existence of two involuntary labor systems-Mexican peonage and Indian captivity-in the nineteenth-century Southwest impacted the transformation of America's judicial and political institutions during the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras.

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Produktdetails

• America in the Nineteenth Century
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249033
• ISBN-10: 0812249038
• Artikelnr.: 46598160

Autorenporträt

William S. Kiser

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1. Debating Southwestern Slavery in the Halls of Congress
Chapter 2. Indian Slavery Meets American Sovereignty
Chapter 3. The Peculiar Institution of Debt Peonage
Chapter 4. Slave Codes and Sectional Favor
Chapter 5. Reconstruction and the Unraveling of Alternative Slaveries
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments