Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Slavery West Indies'

There are a lot of Swedish people who are aware of former Swedish colonies. St. Barthélemy in the West Indies, has many streets and towns named after Swedish people, exemplified by the capital Gustavia, named after King Gustav III. What many fail to learn about however, is the fact that slavery and slave trade is a relatively large part of Sweden’s cultural heritage. These are events that Sweden doesn’t seem to want to remember.   This study aims to look at Swedish history books to study historical writing about Sweden’s involvement in slavery and slave trade. The study will also analyze the social debate regarding slavery in Swedish newspapers, in an effort to showcase why these historical events have been forgotten and purposely evaded. The study will make use of theoretical standpoints revolving around historiography and use of history.   The results show that social debates in Swedish newspapers is largely in agreement regarding the grim nature of slavery and the shameful historical events that transpire. In addition to this, the papers seem to be in agreement regarding the need to address this part of Sweden’s history in an effort to tackle future conflicts facing multicultural countries such as Sweden. In regard to history books, the result is telling. In essence, history outside of Europe has been neglected, and thus Sweden has been allowed to create their own historical narrative, leaving slave trade beyond the horizon.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2001.
Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

This is an investigation and analysis of the institution of indentured servitude in the English colonies of Virginia and Barbados in the first half of the seventeenth century. It argues that the system of indentured servitude contributed to the development of property rights in individuals and thereby provided early examples of treating people as property that would ultimately lead to the rise of chattel slavery in both colonies. It investigates servitude in law, politics, and practice providing examples of the treatment, trade, and resistance of servants throughout this period. Included are chapters examining the trade in servants and a statistical breakdown of the servant population, a comparison of the practice of servitude in both colonies, and a description of the factors that led to the eventual transition to black slavery.
Master of Arts

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toledo, 2009.
Typescript. "Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Master of Arts in History." "A thesis entitled"--at head of title. Bibliography: leaves 99-107.

La traite négrière et l’esclavage transatlantique, basés sur une idéologie raciste, représentent plusieurs siècles de violences interpersonnelles et de traumatismes répétés. Déshumanisant, l’esclavage a induit au niveau psychologique des processus de destruction massifs. Cette thèse en psychologie clinique analyse les traces de ce passé fondateur de la culture antillaise : elle explore les racines traumatiques de l’héritage de l’esclavage ainsi que ses manifestations contemporaines. Elle présente les résidus psychiques de ce traumatisme historique à travers l’élaboration de la culture créole, de l’identité antillaise et des pratiques sociales. Les anciennes colonies sont traversées par une prégnance de la violence dans le lien social, qui traduit tout autant un recours privilégié à la violence qu’une aptitude psychique à la traiter. Nous abordons cette tendance sous l’angle de la plasticité psychique. S’étayant sur la plasticité cérébrale, elle mobilise des défenses pour préserver l’homéostasie psychique selon la culture du sujet. Nos travaux concernent deux îles françaises, la Martinique et la Guadeloupe, et deux îles anglaises, la Dominique et Sainte-Lucie. Nous étudions leurs héritages par un croisement de disciplines (psychologie, psychanalyse, sociologie, anthropologie, neurosciences, histoire), dans une perspective épistémologique. Une recherche psycho-historique sur chaque île a permis de reconstituer la phylogenèse psychique, révélant l’archaïque de matrices identitaires enfouies. Elle dévoile l’ancrage d’un signifiant d’identité collective, qui repose sur plusieurs symboles issus du vécu des populations durant la période esclavagiste. En parallèle de ces vestiges identitaires propres à chaque île, on retrouve des stigmates psychiques transiliens qui contaminent le lien social. Arrimés à la culture, qui leur offre une voie de déploiement transgénérationnel, ils convoquent une répétition symptomatique des souffrances à travers certaines pratiques familiales et sociales. La culture antillaise, forte de ses adages créoles qui incitent à ne pas s’effondrer, soutiendrait aussi une plasticité psychique spécifique. L’étude quantitative en psychopathologie mesure l’effet de la culture antillaise sur l’impact psychologique de violences physiques répétées. Cette culture favorise le maintien d’un équilibre psychologique à travers un vécu de violences hautement traumatogènes. Les sujets antillais semblent être héritiers d’éléments de résistance psychique et de résilience efficaces face au trauma. L’étude qualitative en anthropologie sociale établit un état des lieux de l’appréhension de cet héritage aujourd’hui par les descendants d’esclaves. Par l’analyse de leurs discours et de leurs représentations de l’esclavage et de la traite négrière aux Antilles, elle amène à déterminer les vecteurs et les facteurs généraux qui façonnent le rapport des descendants à leur héritage. Ainsi, la présente thèse offre de nouvelles perspectives de compréhension des implications psychologiques de l’esclavage transatlantique et de la traite négrière. D’une part, en dévoilant la pluralité des héritages aux Petites Antilles et leurs contours singuliers. D’autre part, en présentant l’héritage commun sous un angle novateur : dans sa valence psychotraumatique, mais aussi en tant que transmission de ressources psychiques. Aussi, les signifiants d’identités collectives sont fédérateurs : ils fondent un héritage partagé, qui élude les divisions socioraciales. Enfin, nos travaux sur les blessures psychologiques des descendants pointent des pistes afin d’agir pour l’apaisement. La reconnaissance de ces blessures représente désormais un enjeu international. Une réflexion populaire et politique s’est engagée au niveau mondial, dans une dynamique de décolonisation et de réparation. Nos recherches s’inscrivent dans cette actualité : elles éclairent les traces du passé pour mieux répondre aux besoins psychologiques et sociétaux du présent
The slave trade and transatlantic slavery, based on a racist ideology, represent several centuries of interpersonal violence and repeated trauma. Dehumanizing, slavery induced massive psychological destruction. This thesis in clinical psychology analyzes the traces of this founding past of West Indian culture: it explores the traumatic roots of the legacy of slavery, as well as its contemporary manifestations. She presents the psychic residues of this historical trauma through the development of Creole culture, West Indian identity and social practices. The former colonies are marked by a pervasiveness of violence in the social bond, which reflects both a privileged recourse to violence and a psychic ability to deal with it. We approach this tendency from the angle of psychic plasticity. Based on brain plasticity, it mobilizes defenses to preserve psychic homeostasis according to the subject's culture. Our work focuses on two French islands, Martinique and Guadeloupe, and two English islands, Dominica and Saint Lucia. We study their heritages through a cross-disciplinary approach (psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, history), from an epistemological perspective.Psycho-historical research on each island has enabled us to reconstitute psychic phylogenesis, revealing the archaic nature of buried identity matrices. It reveals the anchoring of a collective identity signifier, based on several symbols derived from the experience of the populations during the slavery period. Alongside these identity vestiges specific to each island, we find transilians' psychic stigmas contaminating the social bond. Attached to culture, which offers them a means of transgenerational deployment, they summon a symptomatic repetition of suffering through certain family and social practices. West Indian culture, with its Creole adages encouraging people not to collapse, also supports a specific psychic plasticity. Quantitative studies in psychopathology have measured the effect of West Indian culture on the psychological impact of repeated physical violence. This culture favors the maintenance of psychological equilibrium through the experience of highly traumatizing violence. West Indian subjects seem to have inherited elements of psychic resistance and resilience that are effective in the face of trauma. This qualitative study in social anthropology takes stock of how the descendants of slaves understand this heritage today. By analyzing their discourse and representations of slavery and the slave trade in the French West Indies, it helps to determine the vectors and factors that generate and perpetuate this legacy.This thesis offers new insights into the psychological implications of transatlantic slavery and the slave trade. On the one hand, by revealing the plurality of heritages in the Lesser Antilles and their singular contours. Secondly, by presenting the common heritage from an innovative angle: in its psychotraumatic valence, but also as a transmission of psychic resources. Also, the signifiers of collective identities are federators: they form the basis of a shared heritage, which eludes socio-racial divisions. Finally, our work on the psychological wounds of descendants points the way to action to heal them. Recognition of these wounds is now an international issue. A popular and political debate is underway around the world, as part of a process of decolonization and reparation. Our research is part of this current trend: it sheds light on the traces of the past to better respond to the psychological and societal needs of the present

This study seeks to explore the nature and activities of the anti-abolitionists in the era of British abolition. There were Britons who actively opposed the idea of abolishing the slave trade and West Indian slavery. They published works promoting and defending the trade and the institution of slavery. They challenged abolitionist assertions and claims about life in the colonies and the nature of the slaves and attacked the sentimental nature of abolitionist rhetoric. Proslavery MPs argued in Parliament for the maintenance of slavery and the slave trade. Members of the West Indian interest formed committees to produce their own propaganda and petitions. They also worked with Parliament to develop strategies to ameliorate slavery and end British slaveholding, whilst securing several more years of plantation labour and financial compensation for slaveholders. Politicians, writers, members of the West Indian interest, and their supporters actively fought to maintain colonial slavery and the prosperity of Britain and the colonies. A wide range of sources has been employed to reveal the true nature of the proslavery arguments advanced in Britain in the era of abolition. These include committee minutes, petitions, pamphlets, reviews, manuals, travel writing, scientific studies, political prints, portraits, poetry and song, plays, and the records of every parliamentary debate on slavery, the slave trade, and the West Indian colonies. Specific proslavery and anti-abolitionist arguments have been identified and analysed using these sources, with some commentary on how the setting or genre potentially impacted on the argument being presented. This analysis reveals that economic, racial, legal, historical, strategic, religious, moral, and humanitarian arguments were all used to counter the growing popularity of abolition and emancipation. Proslavery rhetoric in Parliament is also analysed, revealing an active proslavery side committed to fighting abolition. Overall, this study contributes to our current understanding of the timing, nature, and reception of British abolition in Britain by showing that the process was influenced by a serious debate.

This thesis examines the published writing about the British Caribbean, by white women, in the years 1770-1845. The study includes travel accounts, published histories, natural histories, diaries, letters and novels, which represent a range of views on slavery from anti-slavery to pro-slavery. White women's writing from the Caribbean remains a neglected topic, despite pioneering work about North America, and some of the texts I examine have not previously been used in a study of slavery in the British West Indies. As well as using these `new' sources, the thesis also makes a theoretical contribution to the study of slavery in the Caribbean. Texts are deconstructed in order to analyse the powerful images of `race' and racism present in women's writing. It is argued that white women travellers and novelists played an important role in imperialism in contributing to contemporary discourses on racism and white superiority. I suggest that even `anti'-slavery texts contained powerful negative images of slaves and of the free black and mixed-origins populations. The thesis also suggests that white women accepted white male patriarchy in slave society, and even contributed to their own gender oppression by their glorification of stereotypical female gender characteristics.

Ce travail de thèse a pour but d’étudier le degré d’implication des Écossais dans le système esclavagiste britannique graduellement mis en place dans les colonies du Nouveau Monde à partir du XVIIe siècle. Dans la lignée de publications récentes témoignant d’un intérêt grandissant pour la question, il vise à mettre au jour un pan problématique de l’histoire écossaise, qui trouve un écho particulier dans les discussions actuelles sur l’identité nationale écossaise. Cette thèse s’attarde ainsi sur le rôle particulier joué par les Écossais dans le développement économique de la traite négrière et au sein des sociétés esclavagistes des Antilles britanniques. Ce travail de recherche s’intéresse également à l’émergence des idées abolitionnistes en Grande-Bretagne au début du XIXe siècle et à la place des Écossais dans ce grand débat sociétal. L’enjeu de cette thèse est de déterminer s’il existait une spécificité de comportement, d’idéologie, dans le rôle joué par les Écossais au sein du système esclavagiste et dans les campagnes abolitionnistes dans le contexte impérial post-Union. Cette démarche ne s’inscrit pas dans la volonté clivante de singulariser les Écossais, mais de remettre en question l’homogénéité des notions d’« esclavagisme britannique » et d’ « abolitionnisme britannique ». Selon une approche chronologique, ce travail de recherche s’organise en trois mouvements. La première partie s’articule autour de la genèse d’une idéologie impériale écossaise, s’appuyant sur une conception économique esclavagiste. La seconde partie s’attarde sur la réalité du système esclavagiste dans les colonies et la place des colons écossais tandis que la dernière partie revient sur l’apport philosophique, idéologique et politique des Écossais dans les campagnes abolitionnistes britanniques et sur leur inclusion dans un projet à l’identité britannique très affirmée
This dissertation explores the scope of the Scottish involvement in the British slave system that was implemented in the colonies of the New World from the 17th century onwards. In the wake of recent research revealing a growing interest for this specific issue, it aims at examining a problematic aspect of Scotland’s history, shedding some new light on the current debate about national identity in Scotland. This thesis dwells on the particular role played by the Scots in the economic development of the African slave trade and their participation in slave societies in the West Indies. This research also takes interest in the emergence of abolitionist ideas in Great Britain at the beginning of the 19th century and the part Scottish people played in the national debate. The main purpose is to determine whether there existed a Scottish specificity, regarding behaviours and ideology, in the British slave system and in the British abolitionist movement within the post-Union imperial context. The intent is not to single Scottish people out but rather to question the relevance of concepts such as « British slavery » and « British abolitionism ».Adopting a chronological approach, this thesis consists of three parts. First, it revolves around the development of the Scottish imperial ideology and of a colonial economic conception based on slavery. The second part dwells on the harsh reality of the slave system in the colonies and the role Scottish colonists played in it. Finally, the thesis tackles the philosophical, ideological and political contribution of Scottish people to the British abolitionist campaigns and examines their inclusion within this British scheme

This thesis explores visual representations of British West Indian sugar in relation to the African slave trade practiced during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this time, sugar played a vital role to the lives of both European and non-Europeans as it was a source of great wealth for many and became transformed into one of the most demanded and widely consumed commodity. From the earliest days of British colonization, the cultivation and production of sugar in the Caribbean has been inextricably linked with the trade in African slaves to provide free labor for plantation owners and planters. This thesis considers how European artists visually represented sugar in its various forms---as an object for botanical study, as landscape and as consumable commodity---and in so doing, constructed specific ideas about the African slave body and the use of African slave labor that reflected personal and imperial agendas and ideologies.

This literary/historical novel details the life of African-American Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves between the years 1838-1862 and 1883-1884. One plotline depicts Reeves’s youth as a slave, including his service as a body servant to a Confederate cavalry officer during the Civil War. Another plotline depicts him years later, after Emancipation, at the height of his deputy career, when he has become the most feared, most successful lawman in Indian Territory, the largest federal jurisdiction in American history and the most dangerous part of the Old West. A preface explores the uniqueness of this project’s historical relevance and literary positioning as a neo-slave narrative, and addresses a few liberties that I take with the historical record.

Lilburn W. Boggs and the Case for Jacksonian Democracy Robert John Walker Department of Religion, BYU Masters of Religious Education Lilburn W. Boggs was lieutenant governor of Missouri from 1832 to 1836. He was governor of Missouri from 1836 to 1840. Political upheaval was the order of the day as Jacksonian democrats overthrew, through the power of the ballot box, the establishment of the patrician leadership in the United States. Issues of equity, slavery, religion, settlement of the West, and divisive sectionalism threatened the Union of the states. President Andrew Jackson was the representation of the common man and the enemy of the monied oligarchy that assumed the right to rule the common people. Jackson's leadership enabled a powerful change in party politics as he became the charismatic figurehead of the Jacksonian Democratic Party. Boggs was a protégé of Thomas Hart Bennett, the powerful ally of Jackson and leading senator from Missouri. Boggs, beginning as a young man, rode the coattails of Benton right into the governor's mansion in Columbia, Missouri. This thesis examines Boggs' life and political career to ascertain whether or not he was truly a Jackson man as he represented himself to be to the electorate.

A partir d’un corpus télévisé issu des chaînes publiques hertziennes, cette recherche analyse les modalités discursives de traitement télévisuel des contentieux postcoloniaux,- au cœur des mobilisations afro-antillaises articulées autour de trois pôles de luttes (visibilité, discriminations et reconnaissance mémorielle),- réapparus sous la forme d’une nouvelle «Question noire» française durant les années 2000. Il est question plus précisément d’identifier les régimes de monstration de ces mobilisations dont la mise en débat public révèle leur problématisation éristique, à travers un mode d’accès essentiellement polémique à l’agenda médiatique. Ce mode d’admission télévisuel a pour effet l’exhumation en permanence d’un clivage ethno-racial dans les discours publics et médiatiques. En outre, la monstration se déploie à travers le registre d’une mise en scène symbolique de l’opposition entre deux types de figures médiatiques : d’un côté, les Ultra-républicains, dans le rôle des défenseurs autoproclamés de la république et de l’autre, les figures minoritaires engagées dans les actions de contestation de leur statut en son sein. Enfin, cette étude met au jour le déploiement, d’un côté, des procédures discursives de disqualification du minoritaire et de l’autre, celles liées à la re-légitimation du modèle républicain d’intégration dans le processus de prise en charge publique des contentieux postcoloniaux. Cette thèse est structurée autour de deux parties. La première partie s’ouvre sur l’histoire de la présence afro-antillaise en France. Elle met en exergue, dans un premier chapitre, les fondements historiques de la présence noire hexagonale. La deuxième partie concerne notre enquête sur la monstration des revendications afro-antillaises. Charpentée autour de cinq chapitres, cette partie est consacrée à l’analyse des 38 émissions de notre corpus reparties sur une période de dix ans entre 1998 et 2008
From a French public channels corpus, this study aims to analize Tv representions of postcolonial contentious issues, in the heart of French Blacks mobilisations which are structured around three mean claims (visibility, discriminations and memory recognition). Describing the will of French Blacks to exist on public sphere, these claims make the historic debate of the “Question noire” reappeared from the 2000s. The research, which intends to question the way in which Afro carribean mobilisations were told and represented on French public television, identifies following major trends. Fisrtly, the television debates analysis underlines an “eristic problematisation” of “Question noire” related issues with essentially polemical media coverage. The result of this type of access to the media agenda is a constant exhumation of an ethnoracial split in media and public discourses. Secondly, Tv coverage analysis reveals a symbolic production of an opposition between two dominant media figures. In one side, the “Ultra-républicains” playing the rôle of self-proclaimed defenders of French republic, and, on the other side, a coalition of minoriy claims defenders. The study, at last, reveals both discourses of disqualification of the minorities, and, discourses of re-legitimation of the French model of integration. This thesis consists of two parts. The first one deals with French Black history. It presents historic reasons of their presence from slavery up to decolonization. The second part explores the representation of postcolonial contentious issues in French public televisions. Structured on five chapters, it proposes a content analysis of our corpus based on 38 broadcasts between 1998 and 2008

The most influential communities in modern Caribbean history have been the enslaved Africans and their descendant populations. As such, historical archaeology in the Caribbean has often focused on black lifeways under British, Dutch, and Spanish colonial powers. The utilization of various research strategies have included but not restricted to ethnoarchaeology, historical documents, material culture, oral history sources, settlement patterns, stable isotopic study, and burial practices. As one of the first historical faunal studies of the French Antilles, my work attempts to provide a contribution to the study of slave foodways. This dissertation examines the interrelationship between foodways and identity formation during the early modern French transatlantic expansion. My material evidence, exemplified via faunal remains, was retrieved from the slave village at Habitation La Mahaudière, once a prosperous sugar plantation in Guadeloupe established during the mid-18th century, whose domestic occupation spanned over 150 years and is currently a well-preserved archaeological site that offers the potential for understanding diachronic social and cultural processes of the French plantation system. My zooarchaeological results in combination with primary and secondary sources that discuss colonial subsistence practices will assist in establishing how slave foodways and French Antillean identity is created by and shaped one another.
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This work is a social and cultural history of the participation of enslaved and free Blacks in the Seven Years’ War in British America. It is, as well, an intellectual history of the impact of Blacks’ wartime actions upon conceptions of race, slavery, and imperial identity in the British Atlantic world. In addition to offering a fresh analysis of the significance of Britain’s arming of Blacks in the eighteenth century, it represents the first sustained inquiry into Blacks’ experience of this global conflict. It contends that, though their rhetoric might indicate otherwise, neither race nor enslaved status in practice prevented Britons from arming Blacks. In fact, Blacks played the most essential role in martial endeavors precisely where slavery was most fundamental to society. The exigencies of worldwide war transformed a local reliance upon black soldiers for the defense of particular colonies into an imperial dependence upon them for the security of Britain’s Atlantic empire. The events of the Seven Years’ War convinced many Britons that black soldiers were effective and even indispensable in the empire’s tropical colonies, but they also confirmed that not all Blacks could be trusted with arms. This work examines “Tacky’s revolt,” during which more than a thousand slaves exploited the wartime diffusion of Jamaica’s defensive forces to rebel, as a battle of the Seven Years’ War. The experience of insecurity and insurrection during the conflict caused some Britons to question the imperial value of the institution of slavery and to propose that Blacks be transformed from a source of vulnerability as slaves to the key to the empire’s strength in the southern Atlantic as free subjects. While martial service offered some Blacks a means to gain income, skills, a sense of satisfaction, autonomy, community, and even (though rarely) freedom, the majority of Blacks did not personally benefit from their contributions to the British war effort. Despite the pragmatic martial antislavery rhetoric that flourished postwar, in the end the British armed Blacks to perpetuate slavery, not to eradicate it, and an ever more regimented reliance upon black soldiers became a lasting legacy of the Seven Years’ War.
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This thesis is concerned with literature connected with the abolition of slavery in British colonies. The thesis will treat the topic of the abolitionist movement from the perspective of social, cultural and literary history from the beginnings until the abolition of slavery in British colonies in the Caribbean in 1833 with the Slavery Abolition Act. The thesis will focus on the discourse of race and slavery. The chosen authors represent different opinions and perspectives as the discussion will focus on sentimental poetry, travel writings as well as slave narratives. The chief aim is to identify and define the strategies of abolitionist discourse and the rhetorical practices which it employed especially in shaping the image of Africans and how the hegemonic discourse of sentimentalism influenced their writing. The first part of the thesis is concerned with establishing a theoretical background and the establishing of the literary traditions and customs of the eighteenth century, definition of the sentimental discourse and philosophies of the Enlightenment. This will be framed by a definition of Edward Said's "Orientalism" as well as Paul Gilroy's theory of the "Black Atlantic," which will enable us to define the space between Britain, Africa and the Caribbean, where the history of slavery of...

Defence date: 27 June 2008
Examining board: Prof. Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (European University Institute)-supervisor ; Prof. Yassine Essid (Université de Tunis 1)-co-supervisor ; Prof. Martin van Gelderen (European University Institute) ; Prof. Luis Perdices de Blas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
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This study examines conceptions about money, its value, and management in the works of Islamic and Christian scholars in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean from a comparative perspective. By including both Islamic and Christian scholars, while also examining particular cases of monetary management, its main contribution is to offer a more comprehensive view of the process of conceptual change in relation to money that developed in the late middle ages. The main objectives are to compare developments in monetary thinking in different contexts and cultural traditions, to detect changing patterns in the conceptualisation of money, assess their relevance for the history of monetary conceptions and give an account of how such conceptual changes took place. The focus is on a concrete set of issues considered crucial to the emergence of monetary thought and of the quantity theory of money: the nature of money; what (and who) defines its value and how; and what are the factors that affect the value of money (quantity of metal, its relation to prices and the purchasing power of money). Thus, the first part of the dissertation provides an overview of how money and its value were conceived in the medieval Mediterranean. It outlines the roots of a common Aristotelian commentary tradition and accounts for the elaboration of different discourses about the relationship between law, money and political authorities in relation to the debasement of money. The second part of the study explores the impact that dramatic increases in the supply of certain metals had on the conceptualisation of money, prices and understandings of the relationship between them. It examines proposals for monetary management arising in contexts of small change inflation in Florence and Cairo, and compares them with the emergence of the quantity theory in the context of the price revolution of the 16th century. The monetary proposals of an Egyptian scholar, al-Maqrizi, at the beginning of the 15th century deserve particular attention in this respect.

abstract: This dissertation analyzes two regional systems of involuntary servitude (Indian captive slavery and Mexican debt peonage) over a period spanning roughly two centuries. Following a chronological framework, it examines the development of captive slavery in the Southwest beginning in the early 1700s and lasting through the mid-1800s, by which time debt peonage emerged as a secondary form of coerced servitude that augmented Indian slavery in order to meet increasing demand for labor. While both peonage and captive slavery had an indelible impact on cultural and social systems in the Southwest, this dissertation places those two labor systems within the context of North American slavery and sectional agitation during the antebellum period. The existence of debt bondage and Indian captivity in New Mexico had a significant impact on America's judicial and political institutions during the Reconstruction era. Debt peonage and Indian slavery had a lasting influence on American politics during the period 1846 to 1867, forcing lawmakers to acknowledge the fact that slavery existed in many forms. Following the Civil War, legislators realized that the Thirteenth Amendment did not cast a wide enough net, because peonage and captive slavery were represented as voluntary in nature and remained commonplace throughout New Mexico. When Congress passed a measure in 1867 explicitly outlawing peonage and captive slavery in New Mexico, they implicitly acknowledged the shortcomings of the Thirteenth Amendment. The preexistence of peonage and Indian slavery in the Southwest inculcated a broader understanding of involuntary labor in post-Civil War America and helped to expand political and judicial philosophy regarding free labor. These two systems played a crucial role in America's transition from free to unfree labor in the mid-1800s and contributed to the judicial and political frameworks that undermined slavery.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2006.
Advisor: Glen H. Doran, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Anthropology. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Jan 19, 2207). Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 109 pages. Includes bibliographical references.