![]() ![]() ![]() The Other Slavery is nothing less than a key missing piece of American history, one that changes an entire national narrative. 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. New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light on Indian enslavement of other lndians. ![]() Resendez builds the incisive, original 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 and later forced to serve as domestics for Mormons and rich Anglos, or to descend into the "mouth of hell" of eighteenth-century silver mines, where, if they didn't die quickly from cave-ins, they would die slowly from silica in their lungs. Yet, as historian Andres Resendez illuminates in The Other Slavery, 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 and the other emancipation.The greatest insurrection against the other slavery.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. In the period between 16, Carolinians exported more Indians out of Charleston than they imported Africans into it. ![]()
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