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Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction

Stacey L. Smith

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Description:Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. To get started finding Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. To get started finding Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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