William S Kiser

Borderlands of Slavery

The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest

• Broschiertes Buch

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

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780812225020
• ISBN-10: 0812225023
• Artikelnr.: 62809419

Autorenporträt

William S. Kiser teaches history at Texas AandM University-San Antonio. He is author of Turmoil on the Rio Grande: The Territorial History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846-1865 and Dragoons in Apacheland: Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846-1861.

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