TY - BOOK AU - Barba,Paul TI - Country of the cursed and the driven: slavery and the Texas borderlands T2 - Borderlands and Transcultural Studies SN - 9781496229458 AV - E445 .C686 2021 KW - Slavery KW - Texas KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction. "Cursed and driven, traded, as slaves . . . O, what a country" --; Part I. Slave raiders and their cycles of violence, 1500s-1760s. "Obliged to punish and conquer these Indians" : slavery and the Hispanic path to colonization in Texas, pre-1717 --; "Blinded by the craving for slaves" : slavery and the quest for Spanish dominion in native country, 1718-1760 --; "Reduced to peace . . . by the attacks of the Comanches" : slavery and the Comanche emergence in the Texas borderlands, 1706-1767 --; Part II. Strange and violent bedfellows, 1760s-1836. "Companions on campaign" : the Spanish-Comanche battle for Texas, 1760s-1820 --; "Honest people . . . from Hell itself" : Anglo-American colonization and the rise of chattel slavery in Texas, 1800-1836 --; Part III. Violent confluences in the age of Anglo-slaving supremacy, 1836-1860. "De overseer shakes a blacksnake whip over me" : consolidating an anti-Black colonial ascendance, 1836-1860 --; "They should have been entirely destroyed" : Comanche raiding, slaving, and trading in the age of anglo colonial ascendance, 1836-1860; 2; b N2 - A sweeping, comparative analysis of the slaving regimes of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo American communities in the Texas borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3042912&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -