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The Other Slavery
Andrés Reséndez's 2016 history of Indian enslavement in America.
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- 2016
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The Great Dying of the Americas
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Reséndez writes that Europeans first held the upper hand because of horses and firearms and controlled the slaving networks; later Native societies such as the Comanches and Utes took over much of the traffic, selling captives to other Indians and to Spaniards, Mexicans and Americans.
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- 2016 The Other Slavery
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The Other Slavery: An Interview with Historian Andres Resendez, History News Network, 8 Jan 2017.
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Europeans had the upper hand because of their superior warfare capabilities, especially horses but also firearms.
By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries powerful equestrian societies in North America like Comanches and Utes had taken control of much of the traffic and became regional suppliers of slaves to other Indians as well as to Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans.
Because the Spanish Crown prohibited Indian slavery practically since the beginning of colonization, masters and colonists took pains to disguise their activities and resort to euphemisms and subterfuges.
Historian Andrés Reséndez recounts this cruel, complex and largely overlooked history in his groundbreaking book The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
He estimates that between 2.5 and 5 million Native Americans were enslaved between the time of Columbus and 1900.
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