Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands 9781496229441, 2021936392

Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 1469624249, 9781469624242

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of America

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Slavery and the British Country House 9781848020641

This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery a

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Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 9781469624259, 9781469624242, 1469624257

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of America

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Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest 9780812294101

Borderlands of Slavery explores how the existence of two involuntary labor systems—Mexican peonage and Indian captivity—

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The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865 9780812295337

The Alchemy of Slavery foregrounds diverse and adaptable slaving practices that masters deployed to build a slave econom

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Complexion of Empire in Natchez: Race and Slavery in the Mississippi Borderlands 0820358509, 9780820358505

In Complexion of Empire in Natchez, Christian Pinnen examines slavery in the colonial South, using a variety of legal re

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The Laws of Slavery in Texas: Historical Documents and Essays 9780292793101

The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas mo

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The Popes and Slavery

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Crossing the Rubicon: The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology 9780823269907

Falque presents a theological critique of French phenomenology, engaging Levinas, Ricoeur, Merleau-Ponty, Bonaventure, S

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Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival 9780226824376

The untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revered as a musical breeding

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