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- Title
A "CHARMING NAME FOR A SPECIES OF SLAVERY": POLITICAL DEBATE ON DEBT PEONAGE IN THE SOUTHWEST, 1840S-1860S.
- Authors
KISER, WILLIAM S.
- Abstract
Federal deliberations over debt peonage in the Mexican Cession lands during the antebellum era helped to shape perceptions of involuntary servitude within the broader context of chattel slavery in the South. Judicial and congressional analyses of peonage in New Mexico informed future legislative proceedings in the early Reconstruction era that expanded the constitutional ban on slavery to include all forms of coercive labor.
- Subjects
SOUTHWESTERN United States; PEONAGE; SLAVERY in the United States; HISTORY of United States Congress; ANNEXATION (International law); NEW Mexico state politics &; government, 1848-1950; UNITED States politics &; government; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY; LAW
- Publication
Western Historical Quarterly, 2014, Vol 45, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
0043-3810
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/westhistquar.45.2.0169