Author Talk: Linford D. Fisher – Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History

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Join author Linford Fisher in a discussion of his book, Stealing America, where he shows that although the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. The enslavement of Indigenous people began in the years just after 1492, ensnaring an estimated three to six million Natives throughout the Americas.

Although largely erased from the public consciousness, Native enslavement continued for centuries to become a colossal phenomenon that affected nearly 600,000 Native Americans in North America alone, revealing the shocking truth that American colonizers enslaved Natives in roughly the same numbers as they imported enslaved Africans. From Virginia to California, from New England to Barbados, Stealing America traces the history of Indigenous enslavement and land dispossession, detailing how colonizers captured Natives and often deliberately mislabeled them as Black slaves to avoid detection.

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Central Library in Copley Square · 700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116

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