Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

by James F. Brooks

Book Overview

This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century.

Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and kinship met and meshed in the borderlands, forming a "slave system" in which victims symbolized social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807853828
• ISBN13: 9780807853825
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"