Stealing America; The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History
Title of the book: Stealing America; The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History Author: Linford D Fisher Publisher: Liveright Publishing Date: 2026 ISBN: 978-1-324-09495-1 Summary: Indigenous enslavement was a colossal phenomenon of almost unimaginable consequences that ensnared nearly 600,000 Native Americans in North America. In a saga that predates 1619, this double-stealing of Indigenous people and their lands upends virtually every known narrative of American history. Captured Natives, often deliberately misidentified as Black slaves, were used not only on southern plantations, but on small northern farms, and were routinely shipped overseas. While the American Revolution pealed the bells of freedom for colonists, it paved a larcenous trail of westward expansion that decimated tribes and plundered Indigenous lands. Even after Congress outlawed Native slavery in 1867, Americans forced Indigenous children into boarding schools and white homes, where they labore...
