Other Slavery - Hardcover

A National Book Award finalist "Res ndez corrects a blind spot in our understanding of North American history and illuminates mechanisms by which present-day versions of the practice endure."--The New Yorker "This book is, arguably, one of the most profound contributions to North American history published since Patricia Nelson Limerick's "Legacy of Conquest" and Richard White's "The Middle Ground." But it's not necessary to be into history to understand its power: Our world is still the world Res ndez so eloquently anatomizes." --Los Angeles Times "The Other Slavery is a necessary work that occupies a loaded historical landscape; Res ndez keeps a deliberate scholarly distance from the material, bringing forth evidence and constructing careful -- even conservative -- arguments. But that evidence speaks for itself, and the horrors quietly pile up." -- NPR.org "No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas, and not just its facts but the very reason it has been overlooked." --San Francisco Chronicle "Res ndez is adept at untangling the intertribal slave trade, as well as the pernicious behavior of white settlers in northern California."--Philadelphia Inquirer "With his new book, Res ndez joins a small but growing group of historians reexamining the scope and nutre of slavery in the Southwest and Native America."--Santa Fe New Mexican "The Other Slavery is an eye-opening story about the enslavement of Indians. It is well researched and well written--a tragic, but fascinating look at a little explored dark corner of New World history." --eMissourian "Every now and then a new book comes along that throws a switch on our historical valences and makes us see ourselves anew. The Other Slavery is one such book. Much as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee did when it first appeared in the early 1970s, Andr s Res ndez's carefully sifted work fundamentally reshapes our understanding of a great enduring mystery: What really accounts for the swift and tragic demise of our continent's indigenous peoples?" --Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder and In the Kingdom of Ice "In The Other Slavery Andr s Res ndez retells a vast section of Native American and North American history by putting forced labor in its multiple forms at the center. The result is a revealing, tragic, and heartbreaking history." --Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University "This eye-opening exposure of the abuse of the indigenous peoples of America is staggering; that the mistreatment continued into the 20th century is beyond disturbing." --Kirkus "Emphasizing the variety of experiences of unfree labor suffered over five centuries by individuals from communities as culturally diverse and geographically separate as the Maya, the Apache, and indigenous Caribbeans, Res ndez vividly recounts the harrowing story of a previously little-known aspect of the histories of American slavery and of encounters between indigenes and invaders. " -- Publisher's Weekly "Today, with the complex and myriad effects of globalization frequently in the news, human trafficking has managed to endure. The Other Slavery both reminds and cautions: Man's inhumanity to man is still making history." -- BookPage "At a time when we are struggling to come to grips with the legacy of our long-time African slavery experience, it is only right that we should also acknowledge and inform ourselves of the human tragedy endured by the indigenous people of this hemisphere from Columbus' first contact to the present." -- New York Journal of Books

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 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. Resendez builds the incisive, original 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 on Indian enslavement of other lndians. 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 is nothing less than a key missing piece of American history, one that changes an entire national narrative.