Description:
Shortlisted for the 2026 Cundill History Prize
"An indispensable book, as intellectually provocative as it is emotionally wrenching."--Greg Grandin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The End of the Myth
Brief description: Linford D. Fisher is an associate professor of history at Brown University. The author of The Indian Great Awakening and principal investigator of the Stolen Relations project, he lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Review Quotes: Stealing America forces a shift in our perception to see a form of slavery that is new to many of us - Indigenous slavery - from Canada to the Caribbean, from the 1600s to nearly the present day. This book, deeply informed by Indigenous knowledge-keeping and non-Indigenous archives, also makes us see the unfailing Indigenous fight for civil rights and recognition as sovereign people... One of the great strengths of Stealing America is that Fisher continually foregrounds Indigenous agency.--Lori Rogers-Stokes "Historic Boston"