Copyright 2016 by Andrs Resndez
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Names: Resndez, Andrs.
Title: The other slavery : the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America / Andrs Resndez.
Other titles: Uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America
Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016] Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015037557 | ISBN 9780547640983 (hardcover) ISBN 9780544602670 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH : Indian slavesUnited StatesHistory. | Slave tradeUnited StatesHistory. | Indians, Treatment ofUnited StatesHistory. | Indians of North AmericaHistory. | SlaveryUnited StatesHistory. | Indian slavesNorth AmericaHistory. | Indians, Treatment ofNorth AmericaHistory. | Slave tradeNorth AmericaHistory. | SlaveryNorth AmericaHistory.
Classification: LCC E 98. S 6 R 47 2016 | DDC 306.3/620973dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037557
Maps and charts by Mapping Specialists, Ltd.
Cover design by Martha Kennedy
Cover photograph Peter Keil/Gallery Stock
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To my family in California, Mexico, and Finland
List of Illustrations
Climatic zones of the world, fifth century. Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, In somnium Scipionis expositio; Saturnalia. Brown University Library, Annmary Brown Collection 356, Providence, Rhode Island. |
Gold panning, circa 1560. Gonzalo Fernndez de Oviedo, Historia general y natural de las Indias. Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, call number mss HM 177, vol. 1, fol. 18v. |
Brand for war slaves, circa 1560. Bernal Daz, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espaa. Courtesy of Vera Elena Resndez. |
Brand for ransomed slaves, circa 1560. Bernal Daz, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espaa. Courtesy of Vera Elena Resndez. |
Indian slaves as tribute, 1531. Codex Huejotzinco. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Gift of Edward Stephen Harkness, 1928 (2.7, 3.7). |
The war of the mountaintops, circa 1562. Codex Telleriano-Remensis. Courtesy of the Bibliothque nationale de France, Codex Telleriano-Remensis ID/Cote: MEXICAIN 385, fol. 46r entier. |
Nueva Galicia and the Indian wars, 1550. Courtesy of Spain, Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, Archive of the Indies, MP-Mxico, 560. |
The Spanish peso as a global currency. Courtesy of Coinman62, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philip_V_Coin.jpg. |
Ore carriers, 1905. Reproduced from T. A. Rickards Journeys of Observation, San Francisco, 1907. |
Portrait of King Philip IV, 16231624. Diego Rodrguez de Silva y Velzquez, Portrait of King Philip IV (Retrato del Rey Felipe IV), 162324. Oil on canvas, 24 x 19 inches. Courtesy of the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Algur H. Meadows Collection, MM.67.23. |
Sor Mara de greda preaching to the Indians of New Mexico. Woodcut by Antonio de Castro, 1730. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. |
Hopi runners, 1919. Courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (N27741) and The Hopi Tribe. |
Map of northern Mexico by Jos de Urrutia, 1769. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4410.ct000539. |
Drawing of Seri Indians, 1692. Courtesy of The Roman Jesuit Archives, Rome, Italy, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Bohemia 108 (Grandi formatti, cassetto 1, doc. 27). |
Geronimo, circa 1880s. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photograph by A. F. Randall or Ben Wittick, http://loc .gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a37017/. |
Canyon de Chelly, 1873. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photograph by Timothy H. OSullivan, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a19802. |
Ranch scene in Monterey, California. A65.43, Alfred Sully, Monterey, California Rancho Scene, circa 1849. Watercolor on paper, 8 x 10.75 inches. Oakland Museum of California, Kahn Collection. |
Austin McLain playing the violin, circa 1895. California State University, Chico, Meriam Library Special Collections, SC #9501. |
Ute prisoners, 1850. Reproduced from Howard Stansburys Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Philadelphia, 1852. |
Albert H. Pfeiffer. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), neg. no. 045628. |
Senator Charles Sumner, circa 1865. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, photo by Mathew Brady, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.00477. |
Barboncito, circa 1866. Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, neg. no. 55766. |
Padrone supervising cranberry pickers in New Jersey, 1938. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, photo by Arthur Rothstein, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a10356. |
List of Maps
All commissioned maps rendered by Mapping Specialists, Ltd., Fitchburg, Wisconsin.
Espaola at the Time of Columbus |
Slaving Expeditions of the Caribbean, 15101540 |
The Cape Verde Islands and the Slave Trade |
Pnuco and Northern Mexico at the Time of Carvajal |
Mexicos Silver Mines |
Major Slaving Grounds of the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth Century |
The Pueblo World of the Seventeenth Century |
Slaving Corridors and Indian Rebellions in the 1680s |
The Comanchera |
Ute Territory and Range |
The Old Spanish Trail |
Presidial Line in Northern Mexico |
Seri Homeland and Range |
Comanche Raiding into Mexico/courtesy of Pekka Hmlinen |
Geronimos World |
Mormon Migration, 18301847 |
The Long Walk |
List of Appendixes
Appendixes rendered by Mapping Specialists, Ltd., Fitchburg, Wisconsin.
Appendix 1 Indian Slaves in the Americas, 14921900 |
Appendix 2 Slaving Licenses in the Caribbean, 15091522 |
Appendix 3 Average Price of Indian Slaves by Gender and Age in the Caribbean, 15211535 |
Appendix 4 Production of Mexican Silver and U.S. Gold, 15201900 |
Appendix 5 Indians from New Mexico Listed in Baptismal Records from Parral, 16341700. From Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico by William B. Griffen. 1969 The Arizona Board of Regents. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press. |
Appendix 6 Indian Slaves in Mexico and North America, 14921900 |
Appendix 7 Navajo Baptisms in New Mexico, 16901880 |
Introduction
T HE VERY WORD slavery brings to mind African bodies stuffed in the hold of a ship or white-aproned maids bustling in an antebellum home. Textbooks, memoirs, and movies continuously reinforce the notion that slaves were black Africans imported into the New World. We may be aware that in the long sweep of history, peoples other than Africans have been held in bondagea practice that continues today as millions of Asians, hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans, and thousands of Europeans can readily attest. But we still seem unable to escape our historical myopia.
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