![]() ![]() We'll talk about this history, and the psychological reasons it was left unexamined for so long.Īndrés Reséndez is a historian at the University of California Davis, and the author of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. This week on Hidden Brain, we explore an "open secret": that from the time Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World until the year 1900, there were as many as five million Native people enslaved in America. But as many of us learned in history class, this story leaves a lot out. The story of the first Thanksgiving, for example, evokes the warm glow of intercultural contact: European settlers, struggling to survive in the New World, and Native American tribes eager to help. ![]() Sending indigenous people back to Europe as slaves became his solution.Īll countries have national myths. ![]() The riches he had imagined finding in Asia were not materializing in the New World, and the costs of his voyages were mounting. By 1495, Christopher Columbus was in trouble. ![]()
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