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Country of the cursed and the driven : slavery and the Texas borderlands /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Borderlands and transcultural studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.