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Author(s): Flomen, Max | Advisor(s): Aron, Stephen A | Abstract: This dissertation examines the r... more Author(s): Flomen, Max | Advisor(s): Aron, Stephen A | Abstract: This dissertation examines the role of slaving during the encounter between indigenous societies and Euro-American empires in the Texas borderlands from 1700 to 1840. Historians have generally overlooked the structures that bound continental and Atlantic slave systems together. In this multipolar borderland pastoral and plantation modes of production conflicted and comingled, drawing all participants into a “cruel embrace” rife with possibilities for exploitation, destruction, and reinvention. Indigenous war leaders, Euro-American traders, and captives of all nations made their own histories of enslavement and abolition. The dissertation charts the formation of French and Spanish colonies in Louisiana and Texas during the eighteenth century, where forced, long-distance transfers placed indigenous and African populations into plantation and mission regimes. Slaving figured prominently in the confrontation of these band ...
The Journal of the Civil War Era, 2021
In the Southwest Borderlands, marronage and insurrection defined the long war against slavery an... more In the Southwest Borderlands, marronage and insurrection defined the long war
against slavery and empire waged by Indigenous peoples and African Americans
following the Texas Revolution of 1835–36. The egalitarian politics and militarized
commerce of Native societies empowered marginalized communities by providing
the spatial, material, and ideological resources for emancipatory struggles. Allied
with Mexico, multiethnic bands of warriors, fugitives, and renegades built fortified
villages, planted provision grounds, raised livestock, and recruited outsiders. These
efforts culminated in uprisings by Tejanos and enslaved African Americans, as well
as an attempt to establish a Pan-Indian buffer state north of the Rio Grande. With
their combined force, these cohorts posed grave problems for the Anglo-Texan slave
state and made its independence tentative and vulnerable. Taking seriously the
aspirations of maroon communities, this article shifts our understanding of emancipation and sovereignty from a racialized and nationalist framework to a more
fluid terrain that reveals how the dispossessed galvanized new methods of renewal.
Journal of Anthropological Research
Author(s): Flomen, Max | Advisor(s): Aron, Stephen A | Abstract: This dissertation examines the r... more Author(s): Flomen, Max | Advisor(s): Aron, Stephen A | Abstract: This dissertation examines the role of slaving during the encounter between indigenous societies and Euro-American empires in the Texas borderlands from 1700 to 1840. Historians have generally overlooked the structures that bound continental and Atlantic slave systems together. In this multipolar borderland pastoral and plantation modes of production conflicted and comingled, drawing all participants into a “cruel embrace” rife with possibilities for exploitation, destruction, and reinvention. Indigenous war leaders, Euro-American traders, and captives of all nations made their own histories of enslavement and abolition. The dissertation charts the formation of French and Spanish colonies in Louisiana and Texas during the eighteenth century, where forced, long-distance transfers placed indigenous and African populations into plantation and mission regimes. Slaving figured prominently in the confrontation of these band ...
The Journal of the Civil War Era, 2021
In the Southwest Borderlands, marronage and insurrection defined the long war against slavery an... more In the Southwest Borderlands, marronage and insurrection defined the long war
against slavery and empire waged by Indigenous peoples and African Americans
following the Texas Revolution of 1835–36. The egalitarian politics and militarized
commerce of Native societies empowered marginalized communities by providing
the spatial, material, and ideological resources for emancipatory struggles. Allied
with Mexico, multiethnic bands of warriors, fugitives, and renegades built fortified
villages, planted provision grounds, raised livestock, and recruited outsiders. These
efforts culminated in uprisings by Tejanos and enslaved African Americans, as well
as an attempt to establish a Pan-Indian buffer state north of the Rio Grande. With
their combined force, these cohorts posed grave problems for the Anglo-Texan slave
state and made its independence tentative and vulnerable. Taking seriously the
aspirations of maroon communities, this article shifts our understanding of emancipation and sovereignty from a racialized and nationalist framework to a more
fluid terrain that reveals how the dispossessed galvanized new methods of renewal.
Journal of Anthropological Research