Stolen Relations: Centuries of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas - a talk by Tribal representatives and historians

Between 1492 and 1900, an estimated 2.5 million to 5 million Native Americans were enslaved in North, Central, and South America. Indigenous people were enslaved in every European colony, including colonial New England. How is it that we have overlooked such an important part of history? What impact did it have?

In the fourth event of our series Enslavement & Resistance: New England, 1620-1760, we invite you to join a remarkable panel of presenters, all core members of the Stolen Relations project at Brown University, which documents Indigenous enslavement in the Americas. Presenting Stolen Relations will be Linford Fisher, project director and associate professor of history at Brown; Cheryll Toney Holley, Nipmuc, chief of the Hassanamisco Nipmuc; Alexis Moreis, Wampanoag, vice-president of the Chappaquiddick Tribe of the Wampanoag Nation Corporation and tribal historic preservation officer, and Lorén Spears, Narragansett, director of the Tomaquag Museum.This unique live event at the central Boston Public Library enables us to understand a crucial hidden history. It will be live-streamed and recorded.