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Additional enslaved Native Americans were exported from South Carolina to Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. [23] Starting in 1698, Parliament allowed competition among importers of enslaved Africans, raising purchase prices for slaves in Africa, so they cost more than enslaved Native Americans. [23]
Native Americans interacted with enslaved Africans and African Americans on many levels. Over time all the cultures interacted. Native Americans began slowly to adopt white culture. [24] Native Americans in the South shared some experiences with Africans, especially during the period, primarily in the 17th and 18th centuries, when both were ...
The depletion of Indigenous populations coupled with revolts (such as the Yamasee War) would eventually lead to Native Americans being replaced with African slaves in the colonial southeast. [72] The exact number of Native Americans who were enslaved is unknown because vital statistics and census reports were at best infrequent. [73]
Slaves were traded across trans-continental trade networks in North America before European arrival. [1] Many of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, such as the Haida and Tlingit, were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far south as California.
Both Native American and African-American slaves were at risk of sexual abuse by slaveholders and other white men of power. [39] [40] During the transitional period of Africans' becoming the primary race enslaved, Native Americans had been sometimes enslaved at the same time.
A leaked draft report from a Harvard faculty committee has revealed that the university possesses, in its museum collections, the remains of nearly 7,000 Native
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
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