The African-Indian connection also adds a sharp new dimension to the issue of slave resistance. The first evidence of Native American and African unity appears in a l503 communication to Spain’s King Ferdinand from Viceroy Nicolas de Ovando of Spain’s headquarters on Hispaniola, now Haiti. Ovando complained that his enslaved Africans “fled among the Indians and taught them bad customs and never could be captured.” In the last four words the governor is describing more than a problem with untrustworthy servants or the difficulties of retrieving runaways in a rainforest. From his thin line of white colonies, he sees Europeans confronting a new bi-racial enemy that has a base of support in the interior. The budding coalition has new recruits joining each week.
Brother Katz is also the author of "Black Cowboys" which is a book that has a tendency to come up missing and cannot be left out to public view. Books written by "Katz" are the ones that people forget that they "borrowed".
I will add "Black Cowboys" to my list of books to obtain. I don't have a problem with people "borrowing" any books from my library, apparently the people close to me already know it all.