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Book SynopsisTrade Review[C]oncise yet deeply researched...Stone convincingly demonstrates that Indigenous slavery and the slave trade were integral to Spanish exploration, conquest, and settlement of the Americas...Scholars interested in the origins and consequences of Indigenous slavery in the Americas have much to gain by engaging with this groundbreaking work. * Hispanic American Historical Review *
Captives of Conquestis an important additiontothevoluminousscholarlyworkon slavery in the Atlantic world. It forces historians to consider other forms of slavery beyond the better-known African slavery and challenges the idea that Indigenous slavery was a marginal process in the colonization of the Americas. * H-LatAm *
[A] thorough, detailed inquiry into the Indian and African slave trades in the Spanish Caribbean… This is an engagingly written, clearly argued, and meticulously researched volume. * Choice *
Captives of Conquest is an original and important contribution to a growing body of scholarship that expands our understanding of slavery in Latin America. Through its innovative examination of indigenous slavery and by placing the circum-Caribbean and Central America at its center, it fills important lacuna in scholarly understandings of indigenous slavery in the Spanish Empire. * Emily Berquist Soule, California State University Long Beach *
