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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

William S. Kiser

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: William S Kiser, William S. Kiser
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780812225020
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2502-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous