Andrés Reséndez Books

This author delves into pivotal historical moments that shaped global connectivity. Their work deeply explores themes of shifting national identities at frontiers, early European exploration, and the history of enslavement. With a focus on the untold aspects of history, the author examines the moment the Pacific Ocean became a space of worldwide contact and exchange. Their research illuminates the biological and cultural consequences of these earlier transcontinental linkages and their lasting impact on the world.

The Other Slavery
448 pages
16 hours of reading
Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet Reséndez shows 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, forced to work in the silver mines, or made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos. New evidence sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other Indians as Reséndez reveals nothing less than a key missing piece of American history
4.1
A Land So Strange
336 pages
12 hours of reading
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. Cabeza de Vaca ultimately wrote an extraordinary chronicle of his journey. This work conjoins the facts recounted by Cabeza with the author's own research in the history and culture of 16th century North America to describe this epic journey.
4.0

The Other Slavery

A Land So Strange