For centuries, Native American enslavement has been hidden in plain sight -- renamed as “servitude,” buried in archives, and left out of national memory. In a powerful piece for The New Yorker, Geraldo Cadava explores how Indigenous slavery operated across North America, shaping economies, empires, and settler expansion, and how a new public history project is working to confront this erased past.
Why the silence, and what does it mean to finally name it clearly?
📖https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-hidden-history-of-native-american-enslavement