Andres Resendez expllores Indian slavery in a recent book

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    Indian slavery has been an over-looked aspect of the settling of America and writer Andres Resendezlooks at the slave trade that existed in Spanish American and North America since the landing of Columbus on the shores of the Caribbean. It was Columbus who started shipping slaves to markets but Indian slavery existed long before Columbus. Indian slavery expanded though as the Spanish expanded their base and conquests into Mexico and eventually a feudal encomienda's system developed and eventually slavers ignored attempts by the crown to limit Indian labor in the mines extracting the precious metals that made life extremely difficult for the Indigenous people in Mexico. In the 1540's the Spanish crown eventually initiated a serious of laws meant to destroy the notion of using natives for slave labor. Around the time though a major Indian coastal rebellion was squashed and the anti-Christian character made the Spanish reconsider ending slavery. Slavery in Mexico and involving Native Americans diffed widely from the plantation mass profit and global trade dependence involving Africans and Resendez goes into great detail of this. The amount of wealth coming in from the silver mines also made King Charles and Phillip to a compromise and somehow find an understanding with the landowners why human bondage of the natives was still necessary in some cases. The author then goes into detail about the generational slavery that existed I the Southwest well before the fouding of America and the complex system this entailed with Comanche and the cute Ute warriors often being the pushers of this system eradicating other Indians and enlarging their own group from kidnapped women. make no mistake that the Comanche and Ute warriors were among the worse oppressors of other Indians and the Utes really get off scott free of their historical damage and wanton destruction of so many other natives through the centuries. Resendez is a premier Mexican historian and brings many ears of research and knowledge of Indian slavery to the table with this great informative book exploring the direct causations and links of slavery in the Americas that involved native Americans.