Brown University: “Collaborative Project Yields New Digital Archive on Hidden History of Indigenous Enslavement”
From Brown University:
Scholars estimate that between 1492 and the 1900s, at least 2.5 million Indigenous people in the Americas were taken from their communities and forced into enslavement and servitude. Just like the transatlantic slave trade, the phenomenon shaped United States history — yet few schoolchildren learn about it today.
That could change with the public launch of Stolen Relations, a vast digital repository led by researchers and librarians at Brown University that cont