The other slavery

"Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andr?s Res?ndez illuminates in ... The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into ... eighteenth-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos. Res?ndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery, more than epidemics, that decimated Indian populations across North America"--Amazon.com.