It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long failed to see truly.-Adapted from dust jacket. For over two centuries we have fought over, abolished, and tried to come to grips with African-American slavery.

The result is a revealing, tragic, and heartbreaking history.Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University. The Other Slavery reveals nothing less than a key missing piece of American history. In The Other Slavery Andrés Reséndez retells a vast section of Native American and North American history by putting forced labor in its multiple forms at the center. New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other Indians-as what started as a European business passed into the hands of indigenous operators and spread like wildfire across vast tracts of the American Southwest. 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. Andrs Resndez tracks slavers across centuries, digs for evidence in brutal gold and silver mines, and tells stories of real captives to personify a system.

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.

The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez