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The history of Spanish presence in the Americas is usually viewed as a one-sided conquest. Eugene Berger provides a major corrective in the case of Chile, documenting how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organised crime families.

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“This Incurable Evil examines a topic of great importance, yet one barely treated by scholars: the enslavement of Indigenous Chileans across a considerable stretch of the colonial period but centered on the seventeenth century. This rich and important book recovers and chronicles the ‘lost worlds’ of the Mapuche and their neighbors. The material is compelling, and the story is compellingly told."—Kris Lane, author of PotosÍ: The Silver City That Changed the World

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    A Hardback by Eugene C. Berger

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      Publisher: University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: 5/23/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817321581, 978-0817321581
      ISBN10: 0817321586
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      Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The history of Spanish presence in the Americas is usually viewed as a one-sided conquest. Eugene Berger provides a major corrective in the case of Chile, documenting how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organised crime families.

      Trade Review
      “This Incurable Evil examines a topic of great importance, yet one barely treated by scholars: the enslavement of Indigenous Chileans across a considerable stretch of the colonial period but centered on the seventeenth century. This rich and important book recovers and chronicles the ‘lost worlds’ of the Mapuche and their neighbors. The material is compelling, and the story is compellingly told."—Kris Lane, author of PotosÍ: The Silver City That Changed the World

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