In the Tethered Shadow: Native American Slavery, African Slavery, and the Disappearance of the Past

IF 1.1 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Nancy E. van Deusen
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Abstract:Reflecting on advances in research on Indigenous slavery in the Americas is essential. But it is also imperative to step back and consider why Indigenous slavery only gained a significant foothold in academic studies in the twenty-first century. This article considers several reasons why Indigenous slavery in the Americas was, until recently, considered no more than a short-lived preamble to the horrors of the enslavement of Africans. The topic of disease—and especially discussions about the susceptibility to European diseases that supposedly emptied entire Indigenous landscapes of their inhabitants—has functioned as a heuristic device in historical studies while concurrently tethering the decimation of Indigenous populations to the increased importation of African laborers to replace them. The main economic explanations given in the historical literature for the transition from enslaving Indigenous people (the first slavery) to enslaving Africans overemphasize the African slave trade that supplied laborers for monocultural plantation production in the littoral areas of North and South America and on many Caribbean islands, thus eliding or underplaying the existence and persistence of Indigenous slavery, both in those places in other parts of the Americas. Those habits of thought and argumentation have been abetted and reinforced by the archive's power to tether the two histories of slavery through plenitude, erasure, and obfuscation in how documents are created, stored, and accessed.
在被束缚的阴影中:美洲原住民奴隶制、非洲奴隶制和过去的消失
摘要:反思美洲土著奴隶制研究的进展至关重要。但也必须退后一步,思考为什么土著奴隶制在21世纪的学术研究中才有了重要的立足点。这篇文章考虑了几个原因,为什么直到最近,美洲的土著奴隶制还被认为只是奴役非洲人的恐怖的短暂序言。疾病的话题——尤其是关于欧洲疾病易感性的讨论,据说这些疾病清空了他们居民的整个土著景观——在历史研究中起到了启发性的作用,同时也将土著人口的大量减少与非洲劳动力的增加联系起来。历史文献中对从奴役土著人民(第一次奴隶制)到奴役非洲人的转变的主要经济解释过分强调了非洲奴隶贸易,这种贸易为南北美洲沿海地区和许多加勒比岛屿的单一文化种植园生产提供了劳动力,从而消除或低估了土著奴隶制的存在和持续存在,无论是在美洲其他地区的这些地方。档案馆通过对文件的创建、存储和访问方式的充分、删除和混淆,将两段奴隶制历史联系在一起,这助长并强化了这些思维和论证习惯。
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