Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    America's Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States
    America's Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States
    America's Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States
    Audiobook1 hour

    America's Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States

    Written by Charles River Editors

    Narrated by Daniel Houle

    3.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    The African slave trade is a complex and deeply divisive subject that has had a tendency to evolve according the political requirements of any given age, and is often touchable only with the correct distribution of culpability. It has for many years, therefore, been deemed singularly unpalatable to implicate Africans themselves in the perpetration of the institution, and only in recent years has the large-scale African involvement in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Slave Trades come to be an accepted fact. There can, however, be no doubt that even though large numbers of indigenous Africans were liable, it was European ingenuity and greed that fundamentally drove the industrialization of the Transatlantic slave trade in response to massive new market demands created by their equally ruthless exploitation of the Americas.

    What far less people are familiar with are the other forms of slavery in America, and the victims who were enslaved. Sizable numbers of Native Americans were enslaved, with some of them working alongside African slaves in the fields and others shipped off to the sugar islands. The total number of natives enslaved over the whole colonial period for both American continents is estimated at somewhere between 2.4 and 4.9 million, while estimates for North America north of Mexico are 141,000 to 340,000. These estimates do not seem to include slaves held by the native peoples themselves, nor do they include the serf-like status still a bit short of slavery that was imposed on millions of others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateDec 6, 2019
    ISBN9781094201597
    America's Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States

    More audiobooks from Charles River Editors

    Related to America's Forgotten Slaves

    Related audiobooks

    Native American History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Untangling Slavery’s Roots: The Yearslong Search For ‘Angela’

      May 1, 2019

      Jamestown archaeologists are searching for “Angela.” Four hundred years ago, she became the first known person sold into slavery in the 13 colonies.

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Ku Klux Klan

      Nov 1, 2020

      The Ku Klux Klan
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Slave Insurance Market

      Feb 1, 2017

      RECENT PORTRAYALS of American slavery—from 12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained to Walter Johnson’s River of Dark Dreams and Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton—have emphasized the brutal violence on cotton plantations in the years preceding the Civil W

      1 min read

    • Article

      Slave Traders May Not Have Been Social Outcasts After All

      May 28, 2021

      Historian Joshua Rothman uses the lives of three prosperous slave traders to explode myths about pre-Civil War American society.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Crow Before Crow

      Jun 29, 2021

      Crow Before Crow
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Haitian Revolution

      Mar 19, 2020

      The Haitian Revolution
      6 min read

    • Article

      Slavery’s Painful Legacy

      Sep 29, 2022

      Slavery’s Painful Legacy
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Conversation

      Apr 23, 2020

      The Conversation
      13 min read

    • Article

      Is Africa A Prisoner Of Its Past?

      Jul 16, 2020

      Is Africa A Prisoner Of Its Past?
      8 min read

    • Article

      Are We Heading For Another Great Depression?

      Aug 5, 2022

      To paraphrase the title of a recent Politicsweb article, South Africa has “no need for foreign invaders“, with employees from state-owned enterprises “willing to take the country down”. It got me thinking. Times are certainly very tough for many busi

      3 min read

    • Article

      Crimes against Humanity

      Jun 1, 2016

      Managing Editor editor@nomadafricamag.com The current most newsworthy villainous items in world news, present in Africa causing us immeasurable negative publicity are: 'Refugees' and 'Corruption'. Our Magazine however, is only about Africa, and we mo

      2 min read

    • Article

      Hell On High water

      Dec 28, 2022

      Hell On High water
      8 min read

    • Article

      Slavery’s Rise

      Feb 1, 2022

      Slavery’s Rise
      3 min read

    • Article

      Maritime Times

      Sep 24, 2019

      Maritime Times
      1 min read

    • Article

      Slavery Takes Root

      Sep 1, 2019

      Slavery Takes Root
      3 min read

    • Article

      Indians’ Invaluable Contribution To SA

      Oct 14, 2020

      THE colonial importation of Indian citizens from the sub-continent to South Africa in 1860, entrenched a historical perspective that runs deep into the veins of a country, whose own history has ebbed and flowed in ways we least imagined. The prime ob

      3 min read

    • Article

      How Has Migration Changed The World?

      Jul 16, 2020

      How Has Migration Changed The World?
      10 min read

    • Article

      Hunting Antelope

      Feb 22, 2022

      Hunting Antelope
      11 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for America's Forgotten Slaves

    3.5/5

    6 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words