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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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Main Author: Fisher, Linford D. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2026]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Enslaved Indians > North America > History.
Enslaved Indians > United States > History.
Slavery > North America > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
Indians, Treatment of > North America > History.
Indians, Treatment of > United States > History.
Slave trade > North America > History.
Slave trade > United States > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • A note regarding terminology
  • Prologue : Stealing Indigenous people and land
  • Part one : Rise (1492-1650). Colonial templates
  • American slavery
  • Thin justifications
  • Part two : Expansion (1650-1750). The erased Caribbean trade
  • Forced diasporas
  • Resistance in the southeast
  • The Miskitu trade
  • Part three : Transitions (1750-1820). Everyday opportunism
  • A king's proclamation
  • Revolutionary rage contre-indienne
  • A surge of freedom
  • Part four : Resurgence (1820-1880). Removals and plantations
  • A new American slavery
  • Paradoxical civil wars
  • Abolishing peonage
  • Part five : Transformations (1880-1978). The primer and the hoe
  • Lost sparrows and self-determination
  • Epilogue : Forgetting and remembering-- Author's note: What now?
  • Appendix : Timeline.

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