Reséndez builds the incisive 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 in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. The Other Slavery was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2017 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University among other distinctions.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 AwardsĢ020-2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for the Magellan Exchange project. Reséndez teaches undergraduate courses on Latin America, Mexico, and the history of food together with Sally McKee and offers graduate seminars on colonial Latin America and Mexico. (2005) Changing National Identities at the Frontier, Cambridge University Press (2016) The Other Slavery, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2021) Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Reséndez specializes on early European exploration and colonization of the Americas, the U.S-Mexico border region, and the early history of the Pacific, particularly the pioneering voyages of discovery and the biological exchanges across the largest ocean on Earth. He has taught at Yale, the University of Helsinki, and UC Davis.
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