Freedom's frontier [electronic resource] : California and the struggle over unfree labor, emancipation, and reconstruction / Stacey L. Smith.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, Stacey L.
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Maathai > California > History > 19th century. Slave labor > California > History > 19th century. Slavery > California > History > 19th century. Labor > California > History > 19th century. California > Social conditions > 19th century. California > Economic conditions > 19th century. California > Gold discoveries > Social aspects.
Online Access:	eBook Business Collection (EBSCOhost) - North America: 2013 (EBSCO) EBSCO eBooks: 2013 (EBSCO) Books at JSTOR: 2013 (JSTOR) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle Over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Introduction: California, free and unfree
California bound
Planting slavery on free soil
Hired serfs and contract slaves: peonage, coolieism, and the struggle over "foreign miners"
Enslaved wards and captive apprentices: controlling and contesting children's labor in 1850s California
For purposes of labor and of lust: California's traffics in women
Emancipating California: California's unfree labor systems in the crucible of the Civil War
Reconstructing California, reconstructing the nation
Conclusion: beyond north and south.