"Stealing America is an impressive achievement. With a breath-taking command over the vast geography of early America and an equally impressive commitment to extending its analyses through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this work powerfully amplifies the growing chorus of scholars calling for more complex and nuanced histories of slavery in the Americas. As Fisher reveals, complex Indigenous "centers of enslavement" both pervaded the British empire and gave rise to its agrarian and plantation economies. A necessary and remarkable reorientation of traditional narratives of U.S. history, the work is deepened also by its partnership with descendent tribal communities." -Ned Blackhawk, Yale University, author of National Book Award-winning The Rediscovery of America

"From the earliest coastal kidnappings on Cape Cod’s shores to Boarding School matrons who trafficked Indian children, the history of Indigenous America is one of stolen people and stolen land. Linford Fisher’s passionate prose and grim detail trace five centuries of interlocking African and Indigenous ‘Slaveries,’ in which we feel the weight of the past in our present." -James Brooks, author of Mesa of Sorrows

"Stealing America is a masterful history that demonstrates time and again that Indigenous enslavement and land theft went hand in hand. The scholarship at the heart of this book dispenses with all the old arguments that Indigenous servitude and slavery did not work out in early America." -Brenda Child, Northrop Professor of American Studies, The University of Minnesota.

"For those wishing for a wider, more complicated history of the entanglements of African and Indigenous slavery, the moment has arrived. Building on a generation of pathbreaking scholarship and intrepid original research, Linford Fisher centers diverse Indigenous experiences of unfreedom, expanding the narrative of American slavery across time, space, and scale. A stunning reorientation of continental history, Stealing America lays bare the intertwined theft of Native lands and bodies, their devastating consequences for tribal nations, and the ongoing story of Native survival and resistance." -Philip J. Deloria, Harvard University, author of Becoming Mary Sully

"Linford Fisher’s Stealing America is a much-needed history, honestly and empathetically told, of the full scope of Native American slavery. Anglo settlers didn’t just steal Indian land but, as they moved west from the Atlantic, Indian labor, in massive amounts. An indispensable book, as intellectually provocative as it is emotionally wrenching." -Greg Grandin, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning The End of the Myth

"Many years in the making, Stealing America synthesizes the scholarship on Indigenous slavery and presents a wealth of original research not only about this terrible practice but also about the courageous antislavery campaigns and acts of resistance. Fisher has written a major work." -Andrés Reséndez, author of Bancroft Prize-winning The Other Slavery

"To create American colonies and, later, the United States, settlers stole thousands of people as well as millions of acres from Native Americans. In this vivid, insightful, and provocative book, Linford Fisher reveals the shocking extent and deep tragedy of the enslavement of Native peoples. But Fisher also recognizes their extraordinary resilience in resisting and enduring to the present." -Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of American Republics