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Captives & cousins, slavery, kinship, and community in the Southwest borderlands, James F. Brooks

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James F. Brooks

slavery, kinship, and community in the Southwest borderlands

Examines the origins and legacies of a 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, detailing a "slave system" in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence, with slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards providing labor resources, redistributing wealth, and fostering kin connections that integrated disparate groups even as these practices renewed cycles of violence and warfare

Violence, exchange, and the honor of men -- Llaneros : creating a Plains borderland -- Pastores : creating a pastoral borderland -- Montaneses : traversing borderlands -- Elaborating the Plains borderlands -- Commerce, kinship, and coercion -- Peaks and valleys : the borderlands speak -- Closer and closer apart -- Epilogue : Refugio Gurriola Martinez -- Chronology -- Glossary of Spanish and Native American terms -- Appendix A : Navajo livestock and captive raids, 1780-1864 -- Appendix B : New Mexican livestock and captive raids, 1780-1864 -- Appendix C : New Mexican peonage and slavery hearings, 1868 -- Acknowledgments

Captives and cousins