Beginning with a Jamestown, Virginia battle in 1622 whites complained, the Indians murdered every white but saved the Negroes. Charlestons Colonel Stephen Bull urged division of the races in order to establish a hatred between Negroes and Indians. Europeans prevented meetings and marriages, ended enslavement of Indians and introduced African slavery to the Five Civilized Nations, the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles. But John Bartram found Indian slavery was so gentle it permitted slaves to marry masters and find freedom and an equality. We make Indians and Negroes a checque upon each other lest by their vastly superior numbers we should be crushed by one or the other, stated Reverend Richard Ludlam. Native Americans were hired and bribed to hunt slave runaways and salves were armed to fight Native Americans.When local Nations refused, fighters from distant regions were hired.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:05:58 +0000
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