Andrés Reséndez on "The Other Slavery" at the 2016 Miami Book Fair

Andrés Reséndez discusses “The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America” at the 2016 Miami Book Fair.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering 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, 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 nothing less than 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.
Nonfiction, Indian slaves, slave trade, slavery, history

[@kennewicksheri]

Thank you for sharing this on youtube... so informative .. Thank you

[@muserussell2377]

I can't believe that I was not even aware of this. definitely need to read his book soon

[@DeweyDWhite]

The author’s comment that everybody did it, “enslaved others”, is disturbing and out of context with the broader issue of enslaved people being driven out of existence. All enslavers did not try to eradicate the enslaved. The “everybody enslaved others” is the standard remark to attempt to placate historical transgressions.

[@mackmckinney5206]

Native american slavery, while abhorrent, was only the tip of the inhumanity iceberg; native americans also experienced genocide, as the goal of the European invaders was the extinction of native americans. Which is absolutely confusing when the 5 civilized tribes not only became slave owners but fought for the South in the cvivil war, instead of staying neutral and hoping they kill each other or return to europe.