Native American Heritage Month In just one state or colony, South Carolina, over 50,000 Native peoples were enslaved and transported to the Caribbean. Utah held Indian slaves. After the civil war the Latter Day Saints held native children in bondage as house servants, for the benefit and civilization of the Indians of course. As the pieces of the puzzle come together in the scholarship, historians note that nowhere is there more documentation than in South Carolina, what was the original English colony of Carolina, established in 1670. It is estimated that between 1650 and 1730 at least 50,000 Indians (and likely more due to transactions hidden to avoid paying government tariffs and taxes) were exported by the English alone to their Caribbean outposts. Between 1670 and 1717 far more Indians were exported than Africans were imported. In southern coastal regions entire tribes were exterminated through slavery compared to disease or war. In a law passed in 1704, Indian slaves were conscripted to fight in wars for the colony long before the American Revolution. nativeamericanhistory.about/od/controversies/a/The-Untold-History-Of-American-Indian-Slavery.htm
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:01:17 +0000
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