The Enslavement of the American Indian in Colonial Times

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M'Intosh Cherokee Nation v. Georgia Worcester v. During removal, some wealthy Cherokees were able to take their enslaved people along. Many walked the Trail of Tears, along with the Natives who held them in bondage. But it meant that you had a leg up in rebuilding your wealth.

Colonial America Depended on the Enslavement of Indigenous People

Slave narratives—there are Works Progress Administration oral histories given by black slaves who were once owned by Cherokees and other tribes—report favorably on the experience of being held by Natives. Miles told me that she thought the historian should take these narratives with a grain of salt, pointing out that there are also many stories of Native slaveholders selling or punishing their black bondsmen. In her first book, however, Miles wrote about a Cherokee farmer who enslaved an African woman, lived with her for decades, and never freed her, despite her bearing his children.

In that particular case, years of intimacy did not lead to emancipation. The historians I spoke with said that they found this history challenging to talk about in moral terms—perhaps more so than the history of African slavery. The complexities of the history of Native enslavement leave such clear distinctions behind. I wish that it were so simple. The fact that Native people so often assisted in the enslavement of people from other tribes makes this story a complicated one.

Yes, Europeans did have Native assistance in implementing their ends; they were also the ones who put Native tribes under the existential pressures that forced many Indians to sell fellow Natives into slavery. This tragedy does not make for so clear-cut a narrative as, say, the bravery of the fugitive African Americans who took the Underground Railroad to freedom. Yet it is a tragedy nonetheless. The many stories of Native slavery force us to think about the strategies Native people used to respond to the relentless European desire for labor.

Some, like the Yamasee—who, with their allies, rose up to challenge British colonists in South Carolina in —fought enslavement with violent resistance. Some, like the warriors who brought the long coffle of Sioux to Montreal in , or the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw who took their African slaves to Indian Country in the s, tried to adapt by becoming part of the system.

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Later, some worked within European law to challenge a tradition of Indian enslavement. Natives were thus part of the history of American slavery at its beginning, and at its end. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. Native Slavery in the Illinois Country. Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. Ruby and John A.

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Many of these works stressed the uniqueness of New England culture and sought there the origins of American exceptionalism. But that impression was incorrect. Indeed, in the s, the Connecticut River Valley was home to the powerful Pequots. That massacre turned the tide of the war and Pequot survivors were pursued, captured and sold as slaves. King Philip's War in the mid s—which was fought to protest the English colonists encroaching influence and forced labor of Native Americans—ended with "as many as 40 percent of the Indians in southern New England living in English households as indentured servants or slaves," Lee writes.

Enslaving Native Americans became one of the primary ways to expand the economy for colonists in South Carolina and to a lesser extent in North Carolina, Virginia and Louisiana. Many remaining tribes had been pushed West, but something else was taking place, that pushed the data down, as well.