Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

This 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. Indigenous 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. Always 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. 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. James F. Brooks. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 8 List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables......Page 9 ONE. Violence, Exchange, and the Honor of Men......Page 14 Maps......Page 54 TWO. Los Llaneros: Creating a Plains Borderland......Page 58 THREE. Los Pastores: Creating a Pastoral Borderland......Page 93 FOUR. Los Montañeses: Traversing Borderlands......Page 130 FIVE. Elaborating the Plains Borderlands......Page 173 SIX. Commerce, Kinship, and Coercion......Page 221 SEVEN. Peaks and Valleys: The Borderlands Speak......Page 271 EIGHT. Closer and Closer Apart......Page 317 Epilogue. Refugio Gurriola Martínez......Page 374 Chronology......Page 382 E......Page 386 P......Page 387 Y......Page 388 APPENDIX A. Navajo Livestock and Captive Raids, 1780–1864......Page 390 APPENDIX B. New Mexican Livestock and Captive Raids, 1780–1864......Page 395 APPENDIX C. New Mexican Peonage and Slavery Hearings, 1868......Page 398 Acknowledgments......Page 418 B......Page 422 C......Page 423 D......Page 424 G......Page 425 J......Page 426 M......Page 427 O......Page 428 R......Page 429 S......Page 430 T......Page 431 Z......Page 432 Machine generated contents note: ONE. Violence, Exchange, and the Honor of Men 1 Maps 41 TWO. Los Llaneros: Creating a Plains Borderland 45 THREE. Los Pastores: Creating a Pastoral Borderland 80 FOUR. Los Montafieses: Traversing Borderlands 117 FIVE. Elaborating the Plains Borderlands 160 SIX. Commerce, Kinship, and Coercion 208 SEVEN. Peaks and Valleys: The Borderlands Speak 258 EIGHT. Closer and Closer Apart 304 Epilogue. Refugio Gurriola Martinez 361 Chronology 369 Glossary of Spanish and Native American Terms 373 APPENDIX A. Navajo Livestock and Captive Raids, 1780-1864 377 APPENDIX B. New Mexican Livestock and Captive Raids, 1780-1864 382 APPENDIX C. New Mexican Peonage and Slavery Hearings, 1868 385. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throughout the Southwest borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the 19th century.