|a Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-421) and index. |a xiii, 431 pages : |b illustration, maps |c 24 cm |a Boston |a New York : |b Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, |c 2016.

|a Uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America |a The other slavery : |b the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America / |c Andrés Reséndez. |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d YDX |d YDXCP |d BTCTA |d BDX |d OCLCF |d BUR |d ZLM |d COO |d ZCU |d CDX |d PUL |d ILC |d CLU |d GZM |d YUS |d NDS |d IGA |d WIMVL |d COM It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long failed truly to see. For over two centuries we have fought over, abolished, and tried to come to grips with African-American slavery. The Other Slavery reveals a key missing piece of American history. New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other Indians - as what started as a European business passed into the hands of indigenous operators and spread like wildfire across vast tracts of the American Southwest. Reséndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery, more than epidemics, that decimated Indian populations across North America. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into the 'mouth of hell' of eighteenth-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in this book, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent.

The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez