In this world, slaves did not represent merely a source of productive labor but also social wealth and prestige, kinship ties, and an interpenetration of cultures that still colors New Mexico's Hispano and Indian cultures today. In the process, he challenges and complicates conceptions of what constituted American slavery, or better yet American "slaveries." Using source material from history, anthropology, archaeology, folklore, and oral tradition, Brooks paints a detailed and often poetic portrait of New Mexico and its diverse peoples while at the same time linking the region to a captive-exchange complex that stretched from the Southwest across the Plains to the Great Lakes and beyond. James Brooks explores how indigenous and Euramerican practices of capture and servitude came together to form systems of slavery involving Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Anglo-Americans across New Mexico and its hinterlands from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. (Chapel Hill and London: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c.
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.
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