NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE.

A sweeping history by Professor Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), was a finalist for a 2016 National Book Award.

 “All the time that I spent writing this book, I kept thinking about the 2.5 to 5 million Native Americans held in bondage whose voices were almost completely silenced and whose stories we have mostly chosen to forget,” said Reséndez.

Reséndez grew up in Mexico City where he went into politics for a brief period and served as a consultant for historical soap operas. He has taught at Yale, the University of Helsinki, and UC Davis. Reséndez specializes on early European exploration and colonization of the Americas, the U.S-Mexico border region, and the early history of the Pacific, particularly the pioneering voyages of discovery and the biological exchanges across the largest ocean on Earth.

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