Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest

Abstract

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. 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.