Stealing America the hidden story of Indigenous slavery in US history
"Although the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. In a work distinguished not only by its original research but by its "passionate prose" (James F. Brooks), historian Linford Fisher demonstrates how the enslavement of In...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Stealing America : |b the hidden story of Indigenous slavery in US history / |c Linford D. Fisher. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Hidden story of Indigenous slavery in U.S. history |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, |c [2026] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2026 | |
| 300 | |a xvii, 537 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 353 | |a bibliography |b bibliography | ||
| 353 | |a index |b index | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-506) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Preface -- |t A note regarding terminology -- |g Prologue : |t Stealing Indigenous people and land -- |g Part one : |t Rise (1492-1650). |t Colonial templates -- |t American slavery -- |t Thin justifications -- |g Part two : |t Expansion (1650-1750). |t The erased Caribbean trade -- |t Forced diasporas -- |t Resistance in the southeast -- |t The Miskitu trade -- |g Part three : |t Transitions (1750-1820). |t Everyday opportunism -- |t A king's proclamation -- |t Revolutionary rage contre-indienne -- |t A surge of freedom -- |g Part four : |t Resurgence (1820-1880). |t Removals and plantations -- |t A new American slavery -- |t Paradoxical civil wars -- |t Abolishing peonage -- |g Part five : |t Transformations (1880-1978). |t The primer and the hoe -- |t Lost sparrows and self-determination -- |g Epilogue : |t Forgetting and remembering-- |t Author's note: What now? -- |g Appendix : |t Timeline. |
| 520 | |a "Although the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. In a work distinguished not only by its original research but by its "passionate prose" (James F. Brooks), historian Linford Fisher demonstrates how the enslavement of Indigenous people began in the years just after 1492, ensnaring an estimated three to six million Natives throughout the Americas. Although largely erased from the public consciousness, Native enslavement continued for centuries to become a colossal phenomenon that affected nearly 600,000 Native Americans in North America alone, revealing the shocking truth that American colonizers enslaved Natives in roughly the same numbers as they imported enslaved Africans. From Virginia to California, from New England to Barbados, Stealing America traces the history of Indigenous enslavement and land dispossession, detailing how colonizers captured Natives and often deliberately mislabeled them as Black slaves to avoid detection. While the American Revolution pealed the bells of freedom for colonists, it paved a larcenous trail of westward expansion that subsequently plundered Indigenous land and stole the labor of Natives from nations such as the Cherokee, Navajo, Nisean, and many others. "This double theft," Fisher writes, "was central to the origins, growth, and eventual success of the English colonies and the United States -- not just initially but throughout all of American history." In this expansive narrative, Fisher weaves together accounts of major episodes in American history including early colonization, the American Revolution, and the Civil War with lesser-known stories of Native enslavement and land loss. Fisher upends conventional histories about the nature of American slavery, revealing enslaved Natives in places we have overlooked, including Southern antebellum plantations and the nineteenth-century American West. After Congress outlawed Native slavery in 1867, Americans forced Indigenous children into boarding schools and white homes, where they labored under forced assimilation. This practice was not reformed until the latter twentieth century, when Native nations finally secured increasing rights and self-determination. Nearly fifteen years in the making, this magisterial volume not only uncovers a five-century genocidal history but also illuminates the myriad ways Native Americans have fought for their sovereignty and maintained community. The most comprehensive work of its kind, Stealing America emerges as a saga of both persistent colonialism and Indigenous resilience, one that reframes American history at its core"-- |c Jacket flap. | ||
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