Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Map of California by County 2
4. Prologue. “That’s [the] Reason I Tell It” 5
5. Introduction 16
6. 1. Wikamee: Darkness and Mist at the California Missions 31
7. 2. “The Flame of Their Fury”: Slave Revolts at the California Missions 54
8. 3. A Slave Rectangle in the Pacific 78
9. 4. The Undersea People 96
10. 5. Birth of a State 117
11. 6. Contending Forces: Enslaved Fugitives in California 139
12. 7. Indian Slavery in a Free State: A Deadly Illogic 160
13. 8. No Further West: Ranches, Reservations, and Slave Labor Camps 181
14. 9. “Go Do Some Great Thing”: California’s First Civil Rights Movement 202
15. 10. “A Change Has Come over the Spirit of Our Dreams” 222
16. 11. The Importation of Females in Bulk 242
17. 12. “She Had Stolen Nothing from Him but Herself”: Chinese Women and the Body Politic 267
18. 13. “Except as a Punishment for Crime”: The Birth of the Modern Carceral State 291
19. 14. A Fortress Economy 315
20. 15. Native American Boarding Schools: “Things We Should Remember and Things We Should Forget” 338
21. 16. “We Are the Jury”: Modern Sex and Labor Trafficking 359
22. Epilogue: To Witness 380
23. Acknowledgments 391
24. Notes 395
25. Index 495