Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands Edited by Bonnie Martin and James F. Brooks (cross-posted at the Borderlands History Blog) Students and scholars of the North American Borderlands of a certain vintage will surely have read James F. Brooks' Captives and Cousins. In that seminal work Brooks used the framework of slavery, raiding, and kinship to discern order in the seeming chaos of the colonial Spanish-American borderlands. This topic of slavery is enjoying renewed (and much deserved) interest and again serves as a useful framework to understand the region's history. Unfree labor - in all of its forms - Continue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Linking the Histories of Slavery – North America and Its Borderlands