ISBN:
9780817321581
,
9780817361105
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 194 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Atlantic crossings
DDC:
305.898/72083
Keywords:
Mapuche Indians Wars
;
Indians, Treatment of
;
Slavery History
;
Chile History 1565-1810
Abstract:
"Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Indigenous slavery and slave societies -- Winka : the sixteenth century and origins of Mapuche resistance -- A Pacific Coast diaspora : the incurable evil and an evolving need for resistance -- The era of "Great Tokis" -- Indios amigos and the 1655 Mapuche Uprising -- Toward a ban of Mapuche enslavement : midcentury resistance and outrageously corrupt governors -- Conclusion: An act of God and an end to the trade?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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