| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 452 pages) : maps |
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Borderlands and Transcultural Studies |
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Borderlands and transcultural studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction. "Cursed and driven, traded, as slaves . . . O, what a country" -- Part I. Slave raiders and their cycles of violence, 1500s-1760s. "Obliged to punish and conquer these Indians" : slavery and the Hispanic path to colonization in Texas, pre-1717 -- "Blinded by the craving for slaves" : slavery and the quest for Spanish dominion in native country, 1718-1760 -- "Reduced to peace . . . by the attacks of the Comanches" : slavery and the Comanche emergence in the Texas borderlands, 1706-1767 -- Part II. Strange and violent bedfellows, 1760s-1836. "Companions on campaign" : the Spanish-Comanche battle for Texas, 1760s-1820 -- "Honest people . . . from Hell itself" : Anglo-American colonization and the rise of chattel slavery in Texas, 1800-1836 -- Part III. Violent confluences in the age of Anglo-slaving supremacy, 1836-1860. "De overseer shakes a blacksnake whip over me" : consolidating an anti-Black colonial ascendance, 1836-1860 -- "They should have been entirely destroyed" : Comanche raiding, slaving, and trading in the age of anglo colonial ascendance, 1836-1860 |
| Summary |
A sweeping, comparative analysis of the slaving regimes of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo American communities in the Texas borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Texas
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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Slavery
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Texas
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781496229458 |
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1496229452 |
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