Why read The Other Slavery?

Book cover of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

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Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as historian Andres Resendez illuminates in The Other Slavery, 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…

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1 author picked The Other Slavery as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Caroline Dodds Pennock

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Andrés Reséndez estimates that between 2.4 and 4.9 million Indigenous Americans were enslaved between 1492 and 1900, a statistic that will shock many people, as the history of Native enslavement in the Americas barely seems to have touched the popular imagination.

This book, accessibly written but based on meticulous research, is absolutely essential reading, as it returns this ‘other slavery’ to its rightful place in our understandings of Indigenous, American, and global history.

From Caroline's list on the Indigenous histories of North America.