California, a slave state / Jean Pfaelzer.
"California owes its origins and sunny prosperity 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 to China. Planta...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2023]
|
| Series: | Lamar series in western history.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: "That's [the] reason I tell it"
- Introduction
- Wikamee : darkness and mist at the California missions
- "The flame of their fury" : slave revolts at the California missions
- A slave rectangle in the Pacific
- The undersea people
- Birth of a state
- Contending forces : enslaved fugitives in California
- Indian slavery in a free state : a deadly illogic
- No further West : ranches, reservations, and slave labor camps
- "Go do some great thing" : California's first civil rights movement
- "A change has come over the spirit of our dreams"
- The importation of females in bulk
- "She had stolen nothing from him but herself" : Chinese women and the body politic
- "Except as a punishment for crime" : the birth of the modern carceral state
- A fortress economy
- Native American boarding schools : "Things we should remember and things we should forget"
- "We are the jury" : modern sex and labor trafficking
- Epilogue: To witness.