West of Slavery

Tens of thousands of Indigenous people labored in bondage across the western United States in the 1800s.

Antebellum slaveholders weren't content with an economic and social system based on trafficking in human flesh in the South alone.

On the role of slavery in the settlement of the American southwest.

Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.