Borderlands of Slavery - The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest

Informationen zum Autor William S. Kiser Klappentext 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.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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: William S. Kiser
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780812249033
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4903-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Cent; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous