San Antonio College Library

This book will disturb many who hold to the opinion that Fray Marcos de Nice was the first foreign explorer to enter Arizona and New Mexico. According to John Upton Terrell, not only does Fray Marcos fall considerably short of what historians claim for him, but was not, as purported, the discoverer of the so-called Seven Cities of Cibola. The first man of Old World blood to traverse the region was Estevanico the Black. Estevanico went ahead of Fray...

"Inhuman Bondage offers a compelling narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism. It is the portrait of the dark side of the American dream. Yet it offers an inspiring example as well - the story of how abolitionists, barely a fringe group in the 1770s, successfully fought, in the space of a hundred years, to defeat one of human history's greatest evils."--Jacket.