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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Main Author: Brooks, James, 1955- (Author)
Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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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Table of Contents:
  • Violence, exchange, and the honor of men
  • Llaneros : creating a Plains borderland
  • Pastores : creating a pastoral borderland
  • Montaneses : traversing borderlands
  • Elaborating the Plains borderlands
  • Commerce, kinship, and coercion
  • Peaks and valleys : the borderlands speak
  • Closer and closer apart
  • Epilogue : Refugio Gurriola Martinez
  • Chronology
  • Glossary of Spanish and Native American terms
  • Appendix A : Navajo livestock and captive raids, 1780-1864
  • Appendix B : New Mexican livestock and captive raids, 1780-1864
  • Appendix C : New Mexican peonage and slavery hearings, 1868
  • Acknowledgments.