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Freedom's frontier : California and the struggle over unfree labor, emancipation, and reconstruction / Stacey L. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Stacey L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forced labor--California--History--19th century.
- Forced labor.
- Labor--California--History--19th century.
- Labor.
- Slave labor--California--History--19th century.
- Slave labor.
- Slavery--California--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- California--Economic conditions--19th century.
- California.
- California--Gold discoveries--Social aspects.
- California--Social conditions--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier , Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative a
- Contents:
- Introduction: California, free and unfree
- California bound
- Planting slavery on free soil
- Hired serfs and contract slaves: peonage, coolieism, and the struggle over "foreign miners"
- Enslaved wards and captive apprentices: controlling and contesting children's labor in 1850s California
- For purposes of labor and of lust: California's traffics in women
- Emancipating California: California's unfree labor systems in the crucible of the Civil War
- Reconstructing California, reconstructing the nation
- Conclusion: beyond north and south.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798893130553
- 9798890843821
- 9781469607696
- 1469607697
- 9781469612713
- 1469612712
- OCLC:
- 966768525
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