Image: the cover of Andrés Reséndez’s book, The Other Slavery.

Books

William S. Kiser: Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest.

Andrés Reséndez: The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.

Kevin Waite: West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire.

Articles

Cecily Hilleary: Enslaved Native Americans Played Central Role in 1600s New England Households.

Stephen P. Van Hoak: AND WHO SHALL HAVE THE CHILDREN? The Indian Slave Trade in the Southern Great Basin, 1800-1865.

Benjamin Madley: ‘‘Unholy Traffic in Human Blood and Souls’’: Systems of California Indian Servitude under U.S. Rule.

Simon Romero: Indian Slavery Once Thrived in New Mexico. Latinos Are Finding Family Ties to It.

David Treuer: The new book ‘The Other Slavery’ will make you rethink American history.

Kevin Waite:

• What Slavery Looked Like in the West: Tens of thousands of Indigenous people labored in bondage across the western United States in the 1800s.
• Indigenous peoples in the West of the United States continued to be held in bondage long after the abolition of plantation slavery in the South.

Videos & Podcasts

NPR: An American Secret: The Untold Story Of Native American Enslavement.

Andrés Reséndez: On “The Other Slavery.”