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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]
Native Americans were rewarded if they returned people who had escaped from slavery, and African-Americans were rewarded for fighting in the late 19th-century Indian Wars. [ 24 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Africans held in slavery replaced Native American enslavement and eventually many Native Americans were pushed off their land and forced to move westward.
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
Native American slaves were in the households of many prominent New Mexicans, including the governor and Kit Carson. [90] [91] Black slaves, in contrast, were vanishingly rare. [92] The Compromise of 1850 allowed New Mexico to choose its own stance on slavery, and in 1859, it was formally legalized. [93]
Throughout history, Indigenous people have been subjected to the repeated and forced removal from their land. Beginning in the 1830s, there was the relocation of an estimated 100,000 Indigenous people in the United States called the "Trail of Tears". [180]
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 ...
During the Darfur conflict that began in 2003, many people were kidnapped by Janjaweed and sold into slavery as agricultural labor, domestic servants and sex slaves. [77] [78] [79] In Niger, slavery is also a current phenomenon. A Nigerien study has found that more than 800,000 people are enslaved, almost 8% of the population.