The other slavery the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America
Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in this book, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslav...
| Main Author: | Reséndez, Andrés (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Caribbean debacle
- Good intentions
- The trafficker and his network
- The pull of silver
- The Spanish campaign
- The greatest insurrection against the other slavery
- Powerful nomads
- Missions, presidios, and slaves
- Contractions and expansions
- Americans and the other slavery
- A new era of Indian bondage
- The other slavery and the other emancipation
- Epilogue.