{"product_id":"captives-and-cousins-slavery-kinship-and-community-in-the-southwest-borderlands-9780807853825","title":"Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and kinship met and meshed in the borderlands, forming a \"slave system\" in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence. Slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards provided labor resources, redistributed wealth, and fostered kin connections that integrated disparate and antagonistic groups even as these practices renewed cycles of violence and warfare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlways attentive to the corrosive effects of the \"slave trade\" on Indian and colonial societies, the book also explores slavery's centrality in intercultural trade, alliances, and \"communities of interest\" among groups often antagonistic to Spanish, Mexican, and American modernizing strategies. The extension of the moral and military campaigns of the American Civil War to the Southwest in a regional \"war against slavery\" brought differing forms of social stability but cost local communities much of their economic vitality and cultural flexibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James F. Brooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omohundro Institute and Unc Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.30w x 1.08d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807853825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrooks, James F.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames F. Brooks is professor of history \u0026amp; anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eConfounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omohundro Institute and Unc Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44216457330803,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":80.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f0aecb36-bc91-4884-9b8d-df588058e8d7.jpg?v=1767791190","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/captives-and-cousins-slavery-kinship-and-community-in-the-southwest-borderlands-9780807853825","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}