Freedom's Frontier : California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction /

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Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pac...

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Autor principal: Smith, Stacey L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Slavery.
Slave labor.
Labor.
Gold mines and mining > Social aspects.
Forced labor.
Economic history.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Human Resources & Personnel Management.
Travail > Californie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esclaves > Travail > Californie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Travail force > Californie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Labor > California > History > 19th century.
Slavery > California > History > 19th century.
Slave labor > California > History > 19th century.
Forced labor > California > History > 19th century.
California.
Californie > Decouvertes d'or > Aspect social.
Californie > Conditions economiques > 19e siecle.
Californie > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
California > Gold discoveries > Social aspects.
California > Economic conditions > 19th century.
California > Social conditions > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: California, free and unfree
  • California bound
  • Planting slavery on free soil
  • Hired serfs and contract slaves: peonage, coolieism, and the struggle over "foreign miners"
  • Enslaved wards and captive apprentices: controlling and contesting children's labor in 1850s California
  • For purposes of labor and of lust: California's traffics in women
  • Emancipating California: California's unfree labor systems in the crucible of the Civil War
  • Reconstructing California, reconstructing the nation
  • Conclusion: beyond north and south.

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