• Slavery in the South(west)

  • Jul 2 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Slavery in the South(west)

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  • It’s often said that slavery is America’s original sin. But the kind of slavery most of us learn about in history class—the brutal, dehumanizing enslavement of Black people in the Southern states—wasn’t the only or even the first kind of bondage in the Americas. On this episode of Lost Highways, we look at a far-less institutionalized form of forced labor and servitude widely practiced in the American West. And as we’ll see, enslavement has taken many different forms. We’ll look at the ways power and economics in the Borderlands helped to perpetuate slavery in the United States long after its official abolition. We’ll also look at the ways this history of Indigenous slavery continues to affect descendants, some of whom struggle to reconcile their familial and genetic pasts with their sense of belonging in what has been their homeland for generations.

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