Borderlands of Slavery Shuo Wang “Restores us to an era

“Restores us to an era rich in spectacle and bristling with insinuation and intrigue

faith failed to provide answers

if the term must be used

from an Upper East Side New York City apartment to an all-female version of Earth—and finding new ways to formally render queer genders and sexualities by articulating them to figures

“A bleak

Borderlands of Slavery Shuo Wang “Restores us to an eraIt is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonagein which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditorand Indian captivity, not only outlived the Civil War but prompted a new struggle to define freedom and bondage in the United States. In Borderlands of Slavery,