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“A Species of Slavery”: The Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Unfree Indian Labor in the American West

“A Species of Slavery”: The Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Unfree... “A Species of Slavery”: The Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Unfree Indian Labor in the American West Michael F. Magliari On June 6, 1850, amid the epic congressional debates over the extension of slavery into the western territories recently seized from Mexico, the U.S. Senate took up a bold and unanticipated proposal by the antislavery Democrat Isaac P. Walker of Wisconsin-. In troduced the day before as an amendment to Henry Clay’s controversial “omnibus bill,” Walker’s one-sentence addition called for the immediate abolition of what he labeled “peon slavery,” a form of unfree labor that bound untold numbers of Native American workers in California and New Mexico, the newly conquered lands that composed the sprawling Mexican Cession of 1848. Walker’s amendment did not receive a warm welcome from Clay. The great Whig par - liamentarian from Kentucky had spent months crafting a grand bipartisan bargain between North and South over the contentious question of whether African American chattel slav - ery should be permitted to advance westward. Only the day before, Clay and his allies had successfully fended off yet another attempt by northern Free-Soilers to enact the explo - sive Wilmot Proviso, which would http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American History Oxford University Press

“A Species of Slavery”: The Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Unfree Indian Labor in the American West

Magliari, Michael F
Journal of American History , Volume 109 (3): 27 – Dec 1, 2022
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“A Species of Slavery”: The Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Unfree Indian Labor in the American West Michael F. Magliari On June 6, 1850, amid the epic congressional debates over the extension of slavery into the western territories recently seized from Mexico, the U.S. Senate took up a bold and unanticipated proposal by the antislavery Democrat Isaac P. Walker of Wisconsin-. In troduced the day before as an amendment to Henry Clay’s controversial “omnibus bill,” Walker’s one-sentence addition called for the immediate abolition of what he labeled “peon slavery,” a form of unfree labor that bound untold numbers of Native American workers in California and New Mexico, the newly conquered lands that composed the sprawling Mexican Cession of 1848. Walker’s amendment did not receive a warm welcome from Clay. The great Whig par - liamentarian from Kentucky had spent months crafting a grand bipartisan bargain between North and South over the contentious question of whether African American chattel slav - ery should be permitted to advance westward. Only the day before, Clay and his allies had successfully fended off yet another attempt by northern Free-Soilers to enact the explo - sive Wilmot Proviso, which would

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