Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest AUTH-6134280 Martial-like in its cutting wryness

Martial-like in its cutting wryness

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Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest AUTH-6134280 Martial-like in its cutting wrynessIt is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor and Indian captivity, not only outlived the Civil War but prompted a new struggle to define freedom and bondage in the United States. In Borderlands of