Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction - Couverture rigide

Smith, Stacey L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1469607689 ISBN 13 : 9781469607689

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013

Synopsis

Book by Smith Stacey L

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1469607689
• ISBN 13: 9781469607689
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344