The Other Slavery
Authors: Andrés Reséndez
The Other Slavery
Andrés Reséndez
Mariner Books (2017)
**"A necessary work that occupies a loaded historical landscape . . . An object lesson in the trickle-down horrors of colonialism." —NPR
"Arguably one of the most profound contributions to North American history published since Patricia Nelson Limerick's
Legacy of Conquest
." —
Los Angeles Times
**
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. Reséndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery, more than epidemics, that decimated Indian populations across North America. Through riveting new evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, and Indian captives,
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.
**
Contents
The Trafficker and His Network
The Greatest Insurrection Against the Other Slavery
Missions, Presidios, and Slaves
Americans and the Other Slavery
The Other Slavery and the Other Emancipation
Copyright © 2016 by Andrés Reséndez
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Names: Reséndez, Andrés.
Title: The other slavery : the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America / Andrés Reséndez.
Other titles: Uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America
Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016] Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers:
LCCN
2015037557 |
ISBN
9780547640983 (hardcover)
ISBN
9780544602670 (ebook)
Subjects:
LCSH
: Indian slaves—United States—History. | Slave trade—United States—History. | Indians, Treatment of—United States—History. | Indians of North America—History. | Slavery—United States—History. | Indian slaves—North America—History. | Indians, Treatment of—North America—History. | Slave trade—North America—History. | Slavery—North America—History.
Classification:
LCC
E
98.
S
6
R
47 2016 |
DDC
306.3/620973—dc23
LC
record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037557
Maps and charts by Mapping Specialists, Ltd.
Cover design by Martha Kennedy
Cover photograph © Peter Keil/Gallery Stock
v1.0416
To my family in California, Mexico, and Finland
List of Illustrations
| | Climatic zones of the world, fifth century. Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, |
| | Gold panning, circa 1560. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, |
| | Brand for “war slaves,” circa 1560. Bernal Díaz, |
| | Brand for “ransomed slaves,” circa 1560. Bernal Díaz, |
| | Indian slaves as tribute, 1531. |
| | The war of the mountaintops, circa 1562. |
| | Nueva Galicia and the Indian wars, 1550. Courtesy of Spain, Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, Archive of the Indies, MP-México, 560. |
| | The Spanish peso as a global currency. Courtesy of Coinman62, |
| | Ore carriers, 1905. Reproduced from T. A. Rickard’s |
| | Portrait of King Philip IV, 1623–1624. |
| | Sor María de Ágreda preaching to the Indians of New Mexico. Woodcut by Antonio de Castro, 1730. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. |
| | Hopi runners, 1919. Courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (N27741) and The Hopi Tribe. |
| | Map of northern Mexico by José de Urrutia, 1769. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, |
| | Drawing of Seri Indians, 1692. Courtesy of The Roman Jesuit Archives, Rome, Italy, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Bohemia 108 (Grandi formatti, cassetto 1, doc. 27). |
| | Geronimo, circa 1880s. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photograph by A. F. Randall or Ben Wittick, |
| | Canyon de Chelly, 1873. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photograph by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, |
| | Ranch scene in Monterey, California. A65.43, Alfred Sully, |
| | Austin McLain playing the violin, circa 1895. California State University, Chico, Meriam Library Special Collections, SC #9501. |
| | Ute prisoners, 1850. Reproduced from Howard Stansbury’s |
| | Albert H. Pfeiffer. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), neg. no. 045628. |
| | Senator Charles Sumner, circa 1865. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, photo by Mathew Brady, |
| | Barboncito, circa 1866. Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, neg. no. 55766. |
| | Padrone supervising cranberry pickers in New Jersey, 1938. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, photo by Arthur Rothstein, |
List of Maps
All commissioned maps rendered by Mapping Specialists, Ltd., Fitchburg, Wisconsin.
| | Española at the Time of Columbus |
| | Slaving Expeditions of the Caribbean, 1510–1540 |
| | The Cape Verde Islands and the Slave Trade |
| | Pánuco and Northern Mexico at the Time of Carvajal |
| | Mexico’s Silver Mines |
| | Major Slaving Grounds of the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth Century |
| | The Pueblo World of the Seventeenth Century |
| | Slaving Corridors and Indian Rebellions in the 1680s |
| | The Comanchería |
| | Ute Territory and Range |
| | The Old Spanish Trail |
| | Presidial Line in Northern Mexico |
| | Seri Homeland and Range |
| | Comanche Raiding into Mexico/courtesy of Pekka Hämäläinen |
| | Geronimo’s World |
| | Mormon Migration, 1830–1847 |
| | The Long Walk |
