04/09/2026
The Faculty of Arts Institute for Indigenous Research and Knowledges, the Department of History and Classical Studies, and the History and Classical Studies Graduate Student Association invite you to join us on Tuesday, April 21 at 5:30 pm in the Thomson House Ballroom for the launch of Dr. Linford Fisher's exciting new book, Stealing America: The Hidden History of Indigenous Slavery in US History. This landmark text meticulously traces five centuries of Indigenous slavery in America, showing how human captivity, land theft, and forced assimilation ran together from 1492 to the late twentieth century. Pushing back against the erasure of this genocide from historical memory, Stealing America uncovers the plight, peril, and remarkable recovery of Indigenous communities across the US and Caribbean. Advance copies of Dr. Fisher’s highly anticipated work will be available for sale following his talk.
Linford D. Fisher is a Professor of History and the Faculty Director of the Center for the Digital Scholarship at Brown University and the Principal Investigator of “Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas,” a community-centered, tribal-collaborative digital project that explores how Indigenous peoples experienced settler colonialism and its legacies through the lens of slavery and servitude. He is the author of The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America and the co-author of two works on Rhode Island’s founder, Roger Williams, as well as dozens of other academic articles, chapters, and essays. His work has been supported by the NEH, ACLS, Newberry Library, American Antiquarian Society, American Philosophical Society, and Massachusetts Historical Society.
All are welcome to attend, but we kindly ask you RSVP in advance if possible at the following link:
https://forms.gle/EMKnfNqThvyfBVcG9
The first 50 guests to do so will receive a complementary drink ticket upon arrival at the event.
