Andres Resendez: Native American Slavery

Andrés Reséndez is a professor of history and author who grew up in Mexico City and currently teaches at the University of California at Davis. Professor Resendez discusses his book, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Prof. Resendez discusses pre-Colonial enslavement among the native people of North America and the Caribbean. How the Spanish invasion changed native societies, altered slavery, and decimated entire populations. Also discussed is how the abolitionists movement and Civil War Amendments included and excluded Native Americans due in part to the systems of debt peonage.

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