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- Description
- 1 online resource (448 p.) : 62 b-w illus.
- Series Statement
- The Lamar Series in Western History
- Uniform Title
- California, a Slave State (Online)
- Alternative Title
- California, a Slave State (Online)
- Subject
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- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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- Contents
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Map of California by County -- Prologue. "That's [the] Reason I Tell It" -- Introduction -- 1. Wikamee: Darkness and Mist at the California Missions -- 2. "The Flame of Their Fury": Slave Revolts at the California Missions -- 3. A Slave Rectangle in the Pacific -- 4. The Undersea People -- 5. Birth of a State -- 6. Contending Forces: Enslaved Fugitives in California -- 7. Indian Slavery in a Free State: A Deadly Illogic -- 8. No Further West: Ranches, Reservations, and Slave Labor Camps -- 9. "Go Do Some Great Thing": California's First Civil Rights Movement -- 10. "A Change Has Come over the Spirit of Our Dreams" -- 11. The Importation of Females in Bulk -- 12. "She Had Stolen Nothing from Him but Herself": Chinese Women and the Body Politic -- 13. "Except as a Punishment for Crime": The Birth of the Modern Carceral State -- 14. A Fortress Economy -- 15. Native American Boarding Schools: "Things We Should Remember and Things We Should Forget" -- 16. "We Are the Jury": Modern Sex and Labor Trafficking -- Epilogue: To Witness -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
- LCCN
- 2022945967
- 10.12987/9780300271713
- OCLC
- ssj0003218770
- Author
Pfaelzer, Jean.
- Title
California, a Slave State [electronic resource] / Jean Pfaelzer.
- Imprint
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2023]
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text file PDF
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The Lamar Series in Western History
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Access restricted to authorized users.
- Summary
The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking The dark and buried history of California as a slave state is seldom acknowledged. Yet the state owes its origins to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives-the first slaves transported into California-and launched a Pacific slave triangle. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California's carceral state. Kidnapped Chinese girls, displayed in cages, served in brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied unfree child workers. In this groundbreaking book, Jean Pfaelzer upends the North-South dichotomy in how we understand American slavery by looking west to California. In unyielding research and vivid interviews, Pfaelzer exposes how California gorged on slavery, an appetite that persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs and trapped in sweatshops and remote marijuana grows, or sold as nannies and sex workers. Slavery shreds the state's utopian brand, rewrites our understanding of the West, and redefines America's uneasy paths to freedom.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Language
In English.
- Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)
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Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English 9783111319131
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 9783111318189 ZDB-23-DEG
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Yale University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110749786
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