Slavery in the Texas Borderlands

This is the Second Annual JoBeth Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture.
To most Americans, the word “slavery” conjures
up images of plantations in the Old South. But in
the Texas Borderlands from 1700 to 1850, slavery
was much more diverse. In his lecture, Paul Barba
will explain how Spaniards, Comanches, Anglo
Americans, and Choctaws enslaved others through
processes of kin incorporation, making slaves by
making kin of their victims. In order to capture the
diversity of Texas slavery, Paul has been looking at
a wide variety of multicultural sources to construct a
more comprehensive picture of interactions between
these different cultures.

A luncheon of bbq beef and chicken will be served.
Cost is $20 for members, $25 for non-members.
Please rsvp: (805) 893-4388.

About the Speaker
Paul Barba is writing his doctoral dissertation,
titled “Enslaved in Texas: Slavery, Migration,
and Identity in Native Country’,” on a
fellowship from the University of California
Institute for Mexico and the United States. His
paper on “Peter Pitchlynn and the Navigation
of Choctaw-Anglo-American Narrativity” was
a finalist for the Organization of American
Historians’ Pelzer Prize.

UCSB Mosher Alumni House is at the entrance road for
Campbell Hall at the center of the campus, next to
convenient parking ($3 on weekends). For a map, go
to http://www.tps.ucsb.edu/mapFlash.aspx

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