Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781496237040 |
| ISBN10: | 1496237048 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 476 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Weight: | 654 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 7 maps, 2 tables, index |
| 733 |
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Country of the Cursed and the Driven
Slavery and the Texas Borderlands
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date of Publication: 1 September 2023
Number of Volumes: Trade Paperback
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Short description:
A sweeping, comparative analysis of the slaving regimes of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo American communities in the Texas borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A sweeping, comparative analysis of the slaving regimes of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo American communities in the Texas borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Long description:
2022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West
2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best book on Southwestern History
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas—a hotly contested land where states wielded little to no real power—local alliances and controversies, face-to-face relationships, and kin ties structured personal dynamics and cross-communal concerns alike. Country of the Cursed and the Driven brings readers into this world through a sweeping analysis of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo-American slaving regimes, illuminating how slaving violence, in its capacity to bolster and shatter families and entire communities, became both the foundation and the scourge, the panacea and the curse, of life in the borderlands.
As scholars have begun to assert more forcefully over the past two decades, slavery was much more diverse and widespread in North America than previously recognized, engulfing the lives of Native, European, and African descended people across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico. Paul Barba details the rise of Texas’s slaving regimes, spotlighting the ubiquitous, if uneven and evolving, influences of colonialism and anti-Blackness.
By weaving together and reframing traditionally disparate historical narratives, Country of the Cursed and the Driven challenges the common assumption that slavery was insignificant to the history of Texas prior to Anglo American colonization, arguing instead that the slavery imported by Stephen F. Austin and his colonial followers in the 1820s found a comfortable home in the slavery-stained borderlands, where for decades Spanish colonists and their Comanche neighbors had already unleashed waves of slaving devastation.
2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best book on Southwestern History
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas—a hotly contested land where states wielded little to no real power—local alliances and controversies, face-to-face relationships, and kin ties structured personal dynamics and cross-communal concerns alike. Country of the Cursed and the Driven brings readers into this world through a sweeping analysis of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo-American slaving regimes, illuminating how slaving violence, in its capacity to bolster and shatter families and entire communities, became both the foundation and the scourge, the panacea and the curse, of life in the borderlands.
As scholars have begun to assert more forcefully over the past two decades, slavery was much more diverse and widespread in North America than previously recognized, engulfing the lives of Native, European, and African descended people across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico. Paul Barba details the rise of Texas’s slaving regimes, spotlighting the ubiquitous, if uneven and evolving, influences of colonialism and anti-Blackness.
By weaving together and reframing traditionally disparate historical narratives, Country of the Cursed and the Driven challenges the common assumption that slavery was insignificant to the history of Texas prior to Anglo American colonization, arguing instead that the slavery imported by Stephen F. Austin and his colonial followers in the 1820s found a comfortable home in the slavery-stained borderlands, where for decades Spanish colonists and their Comanche neighbors had already unleashed waves of slaving devastation.
“Paul Barba’s new book engages [conversations about the history of slavery and violence in Texas with] deep research, analytical precision, and an impassioned argument. . . . Unflinching.”—Paul Conrad, Journal of Southern History
Table of Contents:
List of Maps and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction. "Cursed and Driven, Traded, as Slaves.... O, What a Country"
Part I: Slave Raiders and Their Cycles of Violence, 1500s-1760s
Chapter 1. "Obliged to Purse and Conquer These Indians": Slavery and the Hispanic Path to Colonization in Texas, pre-1717
Chapter 2. "This Girl Is What You Want": Slavery and the Quest for Spanish Dominion in Native Country, 1718-1760
Chapter 3. "Reduced to Peace... by the Attacks of the Comanches": Slavery and the Comanche Emergence in the Texas Borderlands, 1706-1767
Part II: Strange and Violent Bedfellows, 1760s-1836
Chapter 4. "Companions on Campaign": The Spanish-Comanche Battle for Texas, 1760s-1820
Chapter 5. "Honest People... from Hell Itself:" Anglo-American Colonization and the Rise of Chattel Slavery in Texas, 1800-1836
Part III: Violent Confluences in the Age of Anglo-Slaving Supremacy, 1836-1860
Chapter 6. "De Overseer Shakes a Blacksnake Whip over Me": Consolidating an Anti-Black Colonial Regime, 1836-1860
Chapter 7. "They Should Have Been Entirely Destroyed": Comanche Raiding, Slaving, and Trading in the Age of Anglo Colonial Ascendance, 1836-1860
Epilogue. "A Malady without Cure"
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction. "Cursed and Driven, Traded, as Slaves.... O, What a Country"
Part I: Slave Raiders and Their Cycles of Violence, 1500s-1760s
Chapter 1. "Obliged to Purse and Conquer These Indians": Slavery and the Hispanic Path to Colonization in Texas, pre-1717
Chapter 2. "This Girl Is What You Want": Slavery and the Quest for Spanish Dominion in Native Country, 1718-1760
Chapter 3. "Reduced to Peace... by the Attacks of the Comanches": Slavery and the Comanche Emergence in the Texas Borderlands, 1706-1767
Part II: Strange and Violent Bedfellows, 1760s-1836
Chapter 4. "Companions on Campaign": The Spanish-Comanche Battle for Texas, 1760s-1820
Chapter 5. "Honest People... from Hell Itself:" Anglo-American Colonization and the Rise of Chattel Slavery in Texas, 1800-1836
Part III: Violent Confluences in the Age of Anglo-Slaving Supremacy, 1836-1860
Chapter 6. "De Overseer Shakes a Blacksnake Whip over Me": Consolidating an Anti-Black Colonial Regime, 1836-1860
Chapter 7. "They Should Have Been Entirely Destroyed": Comanche Raiding, Slaving, and Trading in the Age of Anglo Colonial Ascendance, 1836-1860
Epilogue. "A Malady without Cure"
Bibliography
Notes
Index
