A hundred years before the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia, Europeans introduced the commercial practice of enslavement in “The New World.” And for the next 400 years, millions of Indigenous people throughout the Americas were enslaved through several forms of forced labor and bondage. Historian and author Andrés Reséndez calls this “The Other Slavery,” and his work is changing our understanding of the transatlantic slave trade.

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Resources and Readings

• Teaching Hard History, Summary Objective 1
• Teaching Hard History, Summary Objective 2

Andrés Reséndez History, University of California, Davis

• The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
• A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

References:

• Ancient History Encyclopedia, Atahualpa
• Spanish forced labor, Encomienda
• Spanish forced labor, Repartimiento
• Southern United States, Convict leasing
• PBS: Slavery by Another Name, Slavery v. Peonage
• Interviews with Historians, Brett Rushforth
• Portuguese slave trade, São Jorge da Mina
• American Heritage, Columbus and Genocide
• Massimo Livi-Bacci, The Depopulation of Hispanic America after the Conquest
• Spain, New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians
• Nancy E. van Deusen, Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain

And you'll find a full episode transcript on our site.