#native slavery

It is not known how many Indians were enslaved by the Europeans... #Native  It is not known how many Indians were enslaved by the Europeans. It is estimated that Carolina merchants operating out of Charles Town alone shipped an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Indian captives between 1670 and 1715 in a profitable slave trade with the Caribbean, Spanish Hispaniola, and northern colonies. Because of the higher transportation costs of bringing blacks from Africa, whites in the northern colonies sometimes preferred Indian slaves, especially Indian women and children, to blacks.  Carolina actually exported as many or even more Indian slaves than it imported enslaved Africans prior to 1720. The usual exchange rate of captive Indians for enslaved Africans was two or three Indians to one African.  *Until late in the 18th century Indian slaves worked on English plantations alongside African slaves and even, occasionally, white indentured servants up until the end of slavery in America in the year 1865. Women and children frequently were used as menial laborers or domestic servants.  Slavery existed for Natives held in captivity of slave owners that used words like Negro, or Mulatto to keep Native Americans Indians and also Mixed Black Indians in servitude by falsely claiming they were not Indian.  For the fortunate ones that could prove they were indeed Indian they were set free, but others remained in slavery. Anyone born to a slave women be she Native American Indian, Black African, or Mixed Black Indian inherits slavery. Slavery affected all people of color in America, and the "Paper Genocide" of Native American Indians and mixed Black Indians combined with the slavery of our Native people was a double dose of oppression for Native Americans Indian's be they Full Blood or Mixed Blood in the U.S.  Many of our Native people are now learning about this suppressed part of history that is not openly discussed in any national forum be it TV, film, or the schools in our land.  Slavery hurt all of us, be us Natives American Indians, Black Indians, or Africans.  It is also not well known that Native American Indians sometimes purchased slaves to rescue Native American Indians, Mixed Black Indians, and Black slaves from the grip of slavery in our land, and that purchase was only on paper for the majority of Native American Indians who had no other way to help people out of the grip of slavery in our land.  The propaganda sold to the public to divide Indians and Black folks is that our Native people had slaves for servitude only. Many of our American Indian, Mixed Blood Indians, and even Free Blacks rescued "by purchase" Indians, Mixed Bloods, and Blacks who were family members, and the only way to set them free was to buy their freedom for them. Quote from Django Unchained (2012) *Dr. King Schultz: After this Brittle business  is behind us, you'll be a free man, with a  horse, seventy-five dollars in your back  pocket. What's your plan after that? *Django: Find my wife, and buy her freedom. So never forget our combined history of slavery in America be any of us American Indian, Black, or Black Indian...this history should be the ties that bind us in unity, and not divide us in "The Struggle". Also as American Indian people we should use ALL "opportunity" available to us in our land as our road to sovereignty, because we can make a real difference in our land. Subscribe to I Love Ancestry eNews:  http://eepurl.com/CLJan Support the National Congress of Black American Indians (NCBAI) For more on how to obtain real sovereignty in our land read: Got Unity? Ask a Native American https://www.facebook.com/iloveancestry/photos/a.644611755628361.1073741830.347083452047861/644611775628359/?type=3&theater Written and Compiled by Native American's of the Americas by Blood Not by Government Papers