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Slave traders preferred captive Native Americans who were under 18 years old, as they were believed to be more easily trained to new work. [30] In the Illinois Country, French colonists baptized the Native American slaves whom they bought for labor. [30] They believed it essential to convert Native Americans to Catholicism. [30]
Africans held in slavery replaced Native American enslavement and eventually many Native Americans were pushed off their land and forced to move westward. There are many examples of this forced removal, but one of the most famous was the Trail of Tears (1830s and 1840s) that forced people of the Cherokee nation and other tribes to move to ...
Africans were also more familiar with large scale indigo and rice cultivation, of which Native Americans were unfamiliar. [23] The early colonial America depended heavily on rice and indigo cultivation [24] producing disease-carrying mosquitoes caused malaria, a disease the Africans were far less susceptible to than Native American slaves. [25
By 1715 the Native American slave population in the Carolina colony was estimated at 1,850. [11] Prior to 1720, when it ended the Native American slave trade, Carolina exported as many or more Native American slaves than it imported Africans. [3] [4] [5] This trade system involved the Westo tribe, who had previously come down from further north.
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of about 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their enslaved African Americans [3] within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.
Many slaves took advantage of the disruption of war to escape from their plantations to British lines or to fade into the general population. Upon their first sight of British vessels, thousands of slaves in Maryland and Virginia fled from their owners. [43]: 21 Throughout the South, losses of slaves were high, with many due to escapes. [44]
Indigenous people have often been erased from the country’s historical record — a survey from the National Congress of American Indians found that 87% of state history standards don’t ...
Between 1754 and 1763, many Native American tribes were involved in the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. Those involved in the fur trade in the northern areas tended to ally with French forces against British colonial militias. Native Americans fought on both sides of the conflict.