Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 431 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Summary |
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 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. Reséndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery, more than epidemics, that decimated Indian populations across North America. 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. The Other Slavery reveals a key missing piece of American history. For over two centuries we have fought over, abolished, and tried to come to grips with African-American slavery. It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long failed truly to see. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Caribbean debacle -- Good intentions -- The trafficker -- 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2021. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Awards |
Finalist, National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016 |
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Bancroft Prize in American History and Dipolomacy, 2017 |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost All EBSCO eBooks |
Subject |
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld |
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Indian slaves -- United States -- History.
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Slave trade -- United States -- History.
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Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History.
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Indians of North America -- History.
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Indian slaves -- North America -- History.
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Indians, Treatment of -- North America -- History.
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Slave trade -- North America -- History.
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Slavery -- North America -- History.
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Political science.
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Slavery -- History. |
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Slavery -- North America -- History. |
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Native peoples, Treatment of -- Canada -- History. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Indian slaves. |
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Indians of North America. |
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Indians, Treatment of. |
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Political science. |
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Slave trade. |
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Slavery. |
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North America. |
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United States. |
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Indianer |
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Sklaverei |
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Indigenes Volk |
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Nordamerika |
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Native American slaves -- History. |
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Slave trade -- United States -- History. |
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Native Americans -- Government relations -- United States -- History. |
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Native Americans -- North America -- History. |
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Slavery -- United States -- History. |
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Native Americans -- Government relations -- North America -- History. |
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Slave trade -- North America -- History. |
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Slavery -- North America -- History. |
Genre/Form |
History.
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Added Title |
Uncovered story of indian enslavement in America |
Other Form: |
Original (DLC) 2015037557 (OCoLC)913924416 |
ISBN |
9780544602670 (electronic bk.) |
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0544602676 (electronic bk.) |
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9780547640983 (hardcover) |
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0547640986 (hardcover) |
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9780544947108 (paperback) |
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054494710X (paperback) |
Music No. |
EB00615580 Recorded Books |