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The Other Slavery

Andrés Reséndez

What do we miss when we picture American slavery only as African slavery, and how were Native Americans enslaved too?

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Author
Andrés Reséndez

Why read it

  • You will see that slavery in the Americas was wider than the story many of us were taught
  • You will learn how forced labour kept returning in new forms, even in a country that called itself free
  • You will understand how Native peoples resisted bondage, in some cases through organised revolt

Who it is for

  • A reader who thinks they know the history of American slavery
  • A teacher in California or the Southwest covering local history
  • Someone interested in modern forced labour and how it began

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Caribbean Debacle
  3. Good Intentions
  4. The Trafficker and His Network
  5. The Pull of Silver
  6. The Spanish Campaign
  7. The Greatest Insurrection Against the Other Slavery
  8. Powerful Nomads
  9. Missions, Presidios, and Slaves
  10. Contractions and Expansions
  11. Americans and the Other Slavery
  12. A New Era of Indian Bondage
  13. The Other Slavery and the Other Emancipation
  14. Epilogue
  15. Appendix 1
  16. Appendix 2
  17. Appendix 3
  18. Appendix 4
  19. Appendix 5
  20. Appendix 6
  21. Appendix 7

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