TY  - GEN
T1  - California, a slave state
A1  - Pfaelzer, Jean
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven ; London
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1381680586
AB  - "California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives--the first slaves transported into California--and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California's carceral state. Kidnapped Chinese girls were sold in caged brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied new farms and hotels with unfree child workers. By looking west to California, Jean Pfaelzer upends our understanding of slavery as a North-South struggle and reveals how the enslaved in California fought, fled, and resisted human bondage. In unyielding research and vivid interviews, Pfaelzer exposes how California gorged on slavery, an appetite that persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs but who instead are imprisoned in sweatshops and remote marijuana grows, or sold as nannies and sex workers. Slavery shreds California's utopian brand, rewrites our understanding of the West, and redefines America's uneasy paths to freedom."--Dust jacket.
OP  - 509
CN  - E445.C2 P434 2023eb
SN  - 9780300271713
SN  - 0300271719
SN  - 9780300211641
SN  - 0300211643
KW  - Slavery : California : History.
KW  - Enslaved persons : California : History.
KW  - California : History.
KW  - Slavery : California : History : 18th century.
KW  - Slavery : California : History : 19th century.
KW  - Indians of North America : California : Social conditions : 18th century.
KW  - Indians of North America : California : Social conditions : 19th century.
KW  - Missions, Spanish : California : History : 18th century.
KW  - Missions, Spanish : California : History : 19th century.
KW  - Esclaves : Californie : Histoire.
KW  - Californie : Histoire.
KW  - Peuples autochtones : Californie : Conditions sociales : 18e siècle.
KW  - Peuples autochtones : Californie : Conditions sociales : 19e siècle.
KW  - Missions espagnoles : Californie : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Missions espagnoles : Californie : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - California
KW  - History
ER  -