Indigenous Enslavement: Part 1 – w/ Christina Snyder

<p>Millions of Indigenous people lived in North America before European colonial powers invaded. Along with an insatiable desire for free labor, Europeans brought systems of slavery that significantly differed from the historical practices of enslavement among Native nations. Historian Christina Snyder explains what happened when these worlds collided. European concepts of bondage transformed the way Native nations interacted, resulted in the enslavement and death of millions and sparked widespread resistance.</p> <h2>Resources and Resources</h2> <ul> <li>Teaching Tolerance: Lesson, <a title= "Rethinking &#039;Discovery&#039;" href= "https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/tolerance-lessons/rethinking-discovery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rethinking Discovery</a></li> <li>Teaching Tolerance: <a title= "I Am the Blood of the Conqueror; I Am the Blood of the Conquered" href= "https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/texts/i-am-the-blood-of-the-conqueror-i-am-the-blood-of-the-conquered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I am the Blood of the Conqueror, I am the Blood of the Conquered</a></li> <li>Teaching Tolerance: <a title= "Stowage on the Slave Ship Brookes, 1788" href= "https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/texts/hard-history/stowage-on-the-slave-ship-brookes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stowage on the Slave Ship Brooks, 1788</a></li> <li>Wikipedia: <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Requirement_of_1513" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Requerimiento: The Spanish Requirement of 1513</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Christina Snyder</strong><br /> <a href="https://history.la.psu.edu/directory/czs398" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">McCabe Greer Professor of History</a>, Penn State University</p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674064232" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><em>Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America</em></a></li> <li><a href= "https://global.oup.com/academic/produc