Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 874

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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: American Library Association
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: Jean Pfaelzer
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300271719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking “A searing survey of ‘250 years of human bondage’ in what is now the state of California. . . . Readers will be outraged.”—Publishers Weekly California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California’s carceral state. Kidnapped Chinese girls were sold in caged brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied new farms and hotels with unfree child workers. By looking west to California, Jean Pfaelzer upends our understanding of slavery as a North-South struggle and reveals how the enslaved in California fought, fled, and resisted human bondage. In unyielding research and vivid interviews, Pfaelzer exposes how California gorged on slavery, an appetite that persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs but who instead are imprisoned in sweatshops and remote marijuana grows, or sold as nannies and sex workers. Slavery shreds California’s utopian brand, rewrites our understanding of the West, and redefines America’s uneasy paths to freedom.

Author: American Library Association
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Nevins memorial library, Methuen, Mass
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Author: Shane Moran
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793628424
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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In Resistance: Sol Plaatje and South Africa, Shane Moran studies Sol Plaatje, the founding secretary of what was to become the African National Congress (ANC), and his work within the context of colonial politics and resistance. Arguing for a return to the study of one of the founders of anti-racism, Moran explores issues of land reform, human rights, and the legacy of colonialism. Through an in-depth analysis of Plaatje’s resistance to racial domination, Moran examines the nature of the struggles that continue within and beyond South Africa today. In particular, Moran analyzes events from the beginning of the previous century that shaped post-1994 South Africa, such as the resolution of the ANC to expropriate land without compensation.