Events

Join us for a presentation as Brown University professor Linford Fisher traces the long and surprising history of Native American enslavement and land theft―from the earliest English colonies through the end of the US Civil War and beyond. Drawing on his new book, Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History (2026), Fisher shows how colonizers captured Natives and often deliberately mislabeled them as Black slaves to avoid detection. He weaves together accounts of major episodes in American history including early colonization, the American Revolution, and the Civil War with lesser-known stories of Native enslavement and land dispossession.