![]() ![]() ![]() Reséndez reclaims the narrative and demonstrates that slavery is neither old nor new, but an eternal system of coercive labor practices. Indigenous peoples were the original test subjects for slavery, but somehow this fact has been largely ignored by modern history. ![]() In The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, however, Andrés Reséndez lifts the veil of time to dispel “our historical myopia” of the enslavement of Native Americans.īeginning in the Caribbean before moving into Mexico and the U.S., Reséndez doesn’t just tell the history of Indian enslavement in North America: he also shows us how the national identities of the United States and Mexico were built upon the enslavement of indigenous people.Īccording to Reséndez, the techniques of control used during African-American slavery-and subsequently during Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era-were developed and refined from the moment the very first Europeans set foot in the New World. ![]() For most of us, the word “slavery” has become exclusively figurative, unless we’re talking about the Atlantic slave trade that preceded the Civil War or present-day human trafficking. But very few of us understand the physical and psychological reality of slavery, or how it served as one of the primary foundations for Western civilization as know it. ![]()
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