![]() ![]() The enslavement of American Indians? As Reséndez notes, “Between 16, Carolinians exported more Indians out of Charleston, South Carolina, than they imported Africans into it.” Tens of thousands of Native Americans were taken from the colonies, often sold in the Caribbean for labor on Spanish plantations. ![]() What Andrés Reséndez points out in his long-awaited and important book, “The Other Slavery,” is that Kelsey and Stone “were enabled to enslave these Indians because such activities were common throughout the region and there was a thriving market for Indian slaves.” Versions of the story vary - I was told the Indians revolted because they were starving and an altercation broke out between them and Stone after they were caught taking oats from his horse barn. ![]() There is not an American Indian from Lake County, or from any other Central California locale, who has not heard of Andrew Kelsey and Charles Stone, notorious Indian slavers, murdered at the hands of Pomo Indians in 1849. ![]()
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