![]() ![]() Reséndez builds the case that it was mass slavery-more than epidemics-that decimated Indian populations across North America. ![]() 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. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. ![]() A landmark history: the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century. ![]()
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