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★★★★☆ 4.06 • Goodreads

Genre

Subgenres

  • Colonial Latin American History
  • Indigenous History
  • Forced Labor & Enslavement Studies

Tags

  • Archival Scholarship
  • Revisionist History
  • Accessible Scholarly Narrative
  • Indigenous Perspectives
  • Forensic Research
  • Moral Reckoning
  • Global/Atlantic Context
  • Labor and Economic History

If How to Hide an Empire showed you how nations bury their real histories, then The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez exposes the vanished system Daniel Immerwahr primed you to find.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Archival forensics rebuild a hidden system
  • Individual case studies > sweeping theory
  • Bureaucracy made brutality routine & invisible
  • Reframes Americas history w/ new lens

If Immerwahr taught you that empire hides in plain sight, Reséndez reveals a parallel truth: for centuries, a massive system of Indigenous enslavement operated across the Americas—sanctioned, bureaucratized, and conveniently erased from the national story. Using court records, shipping manifests, and overlooked colonial documents, he builds a forensic case that dismantles comfortable narratives about Western progress with the same evidence-driven precision you loved in How to Hide an Empire.

...a massive system of Indigenous enslavement operated across the Americas—sanctioned, bureaucratized, and conveniently erased...

This isn't polemic—it's archival detective work that names culpability through facts, not slogans. Reséndez follows individuals through regional systems, showing how ordinary institutions normalized exploitation, then vanished it from memory.

If you're ready to see how structural amnesia works twice, start here.

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What Readers Are Saying

"One of the best books that I've read this year...an interesting view of - at a minimum - the role that the other slavery played in the history of the Americas. 5 stars. Highly recommended." — Dan, Goodreads
"This book is exceptionally well researched...the writing is alive with texture and emotion. Resendez takes us back to an America most of us wouldn't recognize...a powerful, well written, disturbing, must-read book that should be in every school..." — Darcia Helle, Goodreads
"This is a wealth of information in this well-researched and enlightening book... essential reading for anyone seeking to learn about one of the most shameful and least-known chapters in the history of the European invasion of the Americas." — Jo, Goodreads

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