Borderlands of Slavery : : The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest / / William S. Kiser.
It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage-in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor-and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | America in the Nineteenth Century
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 16 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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