{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Slavery in the South(west)","description":"It\u2019s often said that slavery is America\u2019s original sin. But the kind of slavery most of us learn about in history class\u2014the brutal, dehumanizing enslavement of Black people in the Southern states\u2014wasn\u2019t the only or even the first kind of bondage in the Americas. On this episode of Lost Highways, we look at a far-less institutionalized form of forced labor and servitude widely practiced in the American West. And as we\u2019ll see, enslavement has taken many different forms. We\u2019ll look at the ways power and economics in the Borderlands helped to perpetuate slavery in the United States long after its official abolition. We\u2019ll also look at the ways this history of Indigenous slavery continues to affect descendants, some of whom struggle to reconcile their familial and genetic pasts with their sense of belonging in what has been their homeland for generations.  ","author_name":"Lost Highways: Dispatches from the Shadows of the Rocky Mountains","author_url":"https:\/\/www.historycolorado.org\/lost-highways","html":"