Between 1500 and 1800, Spaniards and their Native allies captured hundreds of Apache
Indians and members of neighboring groups from the Rio Grande River Basin and
subjected them to a variety of fates. They bought and sold some captives as slaves, exiled others as prisoners of war to central Mexico and Cuba, and forcibly moved others to
mines, towns, and haciendas as paid or unpaid laborers. Though warfare and captive
exchange predated the arrival of Europeans to North America, the three centuries
following contact witnessed the development of new practices of violence and captivity
in the North American West fueled by Euroamericans’ interest in Native territory and
labor, on the one hand, and the dispersal of new technologies like horses and guns to
American Indian groups, on the other. While at times subject to an enslavement and
property status resembling chattel slavery, Native peoples of the Greater Rio Grande
often experienced captivities and forced migrations fueled more by the interests of
empires and nation-states in their territory and sovereignty than by markets in human
labor. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4319 |
| Date | 07 November 2011 |
| Creators | Conrad, Paul Timothy |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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