The Book Prize Index

Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

James F. Brooks

This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and kinsh...

HistoryAmerican History · medium confidenceAmerican History81 signalsLlm Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryTopic Classifier: Indigenous History -> American HistoryIndigenous HistorySlavery & EmancipationEmpire & ColonialismMoney, Markets & Economic Policy

Award History

3 wins · 3 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Bancroft PrizeMajor2003WinnerOfficial source
Francis Parkman Prize2003WinnerSecondary source
Frederick Douglass Book Prize: Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition2003Co-winnerSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Southwest Borderlands90%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    65 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.