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

by William S Kiser and William S. Kiser

Book Overview

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 Indian captivity, not only outlived the Civil War but prompted a new struggle to define freedom and bondage in the United States.

In Borderlands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812225023
• ISBN13: 9780812225020
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"