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N/A. This is an important book with a compelling hypothesis.
The book presents a historical narrative to support its central thesis: that a continuity exists between mechanisms governing extraction of labour between slavery and modern economic practices in Latin America and the southwest of the United States, and that this legacy of native slavery is the untold critical second half of our history with forced labour.
The evidence presented spans a vast geography and timescale, using different types of records to compare institutions of labour across very different cultural backgrounds. While the argument presented by the book is compelling on the whole, there are points at which it is difficult to maintain the connection between labour practices in colonial Mexico and the southwest United States with the state policy of the Spanish Empire and its political successor states. Nonetheless, this should be widely read.