Captives & cousins : slavery, kinship, and community in the Southwest borderlands /
Examines the origins and legacies of a captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century, detailing a "slave system" in which victims symbolized socia...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, NC :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, University of North Carolina Press,
[2002]
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| Summary: | Examines the origins and legacies of a captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century, detailing a "slave system" in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence, with slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards providing labor resources, redistributing wealth, and fostering kin connections that integrated disparate groups even as these practices renewed cycles of violence and warfare. |
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| Physical Description: | 419 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Awards: | Bancroft Prize, 2003. Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 2003. Western History Association W. Turrentine Jackson Award, 2003. Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2003. Frederick Jackson Turner Award, 2003 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807827142 9780807827147 0807853828 9780807853825 |