California, a slave state /

"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. Plantati...

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Yazar: Pfaelzer, Jean (Yazar)
Materyal Türü: Licensed eBooks
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]
Online Erişim:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.3716007
İçindekiler:
  • Wikamee : darkness and mist at the California missions
  • "The flame of their fury" : slave revolts at the California missions
  • A slave rectangle in the Pacific
  • The undersea people
  • Birth of a state
  • Contending forces : enslaved fugitives in California
  • Indian slavery in a free state : a deadly illogic
  • No further west : ranches, reservations, and slave labor camps
  • "Go do some great thing" : California's first civil rights movement
  • "A change has come over the spirit of our dreams"
  • The importation of females in bulk
  • "She had stolen nothing from him but herself" : Chinese women and the body politic
  • "Except as a punishment for crime" : the birth of the modern carceral state
  • A fortress economy
  • Native American boarding schools : "things we should remember and things we should forget"
  • "We are the jury" : modern sex and labor trafficking.