5/24/2023 0 Comments Andres resendez the other slaveryReséndez 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, 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. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering, 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. Anywhere between 2.5 and 5 million Native Americans were enslaved by other Native Americans, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans in the centuries between Columbus and the beginning of the 20 th century. The Other Slavery tells about a system of bondage that targeted Native Americans, a system that was every bit as terrible, degrading, and vast as African slavery and yet most Americans are not aware of it. The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. This event is cosponsored by The Columbia, MIT and Yale Clubs of Washington D.C.
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