Borderlands of Slavery
The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4155035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez (Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 169-170 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jay061 |
| OpenAlex | W2803106714 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This fine book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on slavery and captivity in the U.S. Southwest. William S. Kiser's scholarship complements earlier works by James F. Brooks, Andrés Reséndez, and others by providing an in-depth analysis of debt peonage in the Southwest and by showing the nationwide impact of political debates and legislation elicited by southwestern practices of unfree labor. The book contains a succinct prologue, an introduction, five chapters, and a conclusion, roughly following a sequential order, although the distinct thematic emphases of each section result in chronological overlaps and redundancies. After briefly discussing the origins of interethnic captivity and debt peonage in the Southwest, Kiser analyzes the persistence of both practices in territorial New Mexico and nearby regions long after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, ably situating the complex legal and political arguments they raised at the core of the national debates over slavery and its aftermath
Archaeology · Captivity · Debt · Environmental ethics · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |