Free soil, unfree labor: Cave Johnson Couts and the binding of Indian workers in California, 1850-1867

Pacific Historical Review

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-389

  Magliari, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LABOR POLICY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SLAVE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN DIEGO COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344588606     PISSN: 00308684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/phr.2004.73.3.349     Document Type: Article

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