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California, a Slave State [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 520 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x156 mm, 62 b-w illus.
  • Sari: The Lamar Series in Western History
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Aug-2025
  • Kirjastus: Yale University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0300283350
  • ISBN-13: 9780300283358
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 520 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x156 mm, 62 b-w illus.
  • Sari: The Lamar Series in Western History
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Aug-2025
  • Kirjastus: Yale University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0300283350
  • ISBN-13: 9780300283358
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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
 
“A devastatingly detailed, urgent, and somewhat regretful confirmation of an inconvenient truth: Far from being the place where everyone got an equal chance, California embraced slavery from the outset.”—Erin Aubry Kaplan, Los Angeles Times
 
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.

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

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A devastatingly detailed, urgent, and somewhat regretful confirmation of an inconvenient truth: Far from being the place where everyone got an equal chance, California embraced slavery from the outset. . . . That boosterish tale of Californias endless possibility turns out to have been built with sweat, oppression, coercion, and genocide. It was precisely Californias openness, Pfaelzer posits, that allowed greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy to run amok, and it is this bitter ironynot the orange groves or Mediterranean climatethat makes us (that fraught word) exceptional.Erin Aubry Kaplan, Los Angeles Times

A historian explains how California welcomed, honed and legalized human bondage for 250 years, from the legalized enslavement of Native Americans to forced labor in todays prisons.New York Times Book Review

A searing survey of 250 years of human bondage in what is now the state of California. . . . Pfaelzer traces the practices of todays prison system, such as the leasing of convicts to private employers as forced labor, back to the various slave trades that occurred in California, and makes an irrefutable case that unpaid labor was a major engine of the states economic growth. Readers will be outraged.Publishers Weekly

This books chronological ambition is its greatest strength. Pfaelzer traces four waves of conquest to show that diverse systems of forced labor . . . have nourished Californias economy.Naomi Sussman, Hispanic American Historical Review

Honored with the Heyday History Award, sponsored by Heyday Books

A powerful history of Californias varied systems of servitude, this book extends across three centuries, exploring bondage, resistance, and how servitude has shaped life in the golden state.Benjamin Madley, author of An American Genocide

California has long asserted a proud legacy as a free state. Jean Pfaelzer exposes huge rifts in that glossy narrative, including contemporary practices. A stunning aggregation of evidence through extraordinary research.Franklin Odo, Amherst College

This capacious book excavates Californias brutal history of multi-racial bondage. After reading it, we will never see the Golden States celebrated diversityor the stories the nation tells itself about its racial pastin the same way.P. Gabrielle Foreman, The Colored Conventions Project

Through prolific storytelling using a range of human characters, Jean Pfaelzer takes us through the long California story of slavery and unfreedom in its many forms, offering a powerful revision of the states history.Philip Deloria, author of Playing Indian

Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; and The Utopian Novel in America. She lives in Washington, DC.