[PDF.82qi] Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction

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

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 | #234319 in Books |  Stacey L Smith |  2015-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.85 x6.14l,1.11 | File type: PDF | 344 pages

 | Freedom s Frontier California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor Emancipation and Reconstruction

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||2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Smith's book offers a fascinating rethinking of Reconstruction and the ...|By DemocracyHistorian|Smith's book offers a fascinating rethinking of Reconstruction and the Age of Emancipation by looking at the battles over "unfree labor" that took place in California from the Gold Rush through Chinese Exclusion. She shows that California was anything but a "free state" and that its| |A pleasure to read. Smith makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on the antebellum West and the complicated story of human bondage that unifies western history with our national history of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.--Ore

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 ind...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction   |  Stacey L. Smith. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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