Native American Slavery

What is now called the “ Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom ” by, present day researchers , was decimated in 1646. He high death rates in the Powhatan tribe was caused by diseases brought over by the English , which the natives had never been exposed to . One of the main diseases that was brought over by the English was smallpox . Also measles was a very infectious disease among the Native Americans . The natives had no immunity to these diseases so they were highly contagious and deadly , especially to the children of the tribes . These diseases in a wholes greatly decreased and wiped out a lot of the Native Americans in the area . By the 17 th century , the English settlers began to run low on labor, so they began to enslave African Americans to do their heavy lifting . Not long after this began the slaves started to run away and join the surrounding Native American tribes . Blacks and Native Americans began to intermarry . Not long after Bacons rebellion in the year 1676 , the colonies started to capture Native Americans to be slave to show that they control the land

The Spanish came to the New World with the idea that they were going to practically enslave, convert, or kill the natives. Because of this the Spanish’s treatment for the natives was terrible and very early on. They would use natives to help them find gold and do other manual labor activities. The missionaries would attempt to convert them to Christianity and because a lot would not comply they would end up killing them. Early on the British settlers’ relationship with the native Americans is very different. At first, they were friendly. The first British settlers in a way to live on the Native Americans. North America them was very different from Great Britain, and the Native Americans had lived there for very long time. So, the British settlers took advantage of that and began to trade with the Native Americans and use them in order to help their new settlement survive. Although the Spanish and British relationship with the natives differed at first eventually they both ended up doing the same exact thing. They both killed the Native Americans and cause their societies to be displaced. Even though there and goals were different they both used the exploitation of Native Americans in order to achieve these goals.

Originally, when the English arrived in Virginia they needed to have some sort of relationship with the Native Americans in order to survive. Even though when they came they took the Native Americans’ lands without asking or buying, after this they formed a short alliance in order to survive the starving time. The main ‘peacemaker’, John Smith, strengthened the connection between the two groups, after he was kidnapped and then returned by the Powhatans. During this time, the Native Americans traded fur with the Virginians and also showed them how to plant tobacco, which became their cash crop. After this, Lord De La Warr came in and violently attacked the peaceful Native Americans, which caused tensions to grow between the two groups and their relationship to decline. On the other hand, as the colonists came into Maryland, most of the Native Americans greeted them kindly but since King Charles told Lord Baltimore (George Calvert) to destroy the original inhabitants for their land, many tribes were wiped out. There were still a few tribes that remained and they helped Maryland grow to not only be a renowned colony for religion but to also be famous for their economy. These remaining tribes traded fur with the colonists and taught them how to plant corn, beans, squash, and tobacco. In return the colonists gave the tribes weapons and basic clothing and tools. Even though these two groups traded, the Native Americans were treated as the lowest class and were not involved in the colony’s government. Eventually, the Native Americans tribes in Maryland grew weak from disease and then the Maryland colonists took over all of their land or forced the people to

Native Americans were deeply effected by colonization. It was extremely unfair of the Europeans to destroy Native American way of life. If the Native Americans had the weapons, like guns and disease, that the Europeans did, then maybe they could have fought for what was theirs. Europeans came to America and changed the Native Americans lives forever. This contact between the Native Americans and Europeans was called the Columbian Exchange. While both Native Americans and Europeans received advantages and disadvantages from the Columbian Exchange, Native Americans definitely suffered more while the Europeans were benefited

When columbus first found the Americas little did he or anyone in this case know everything that would happen in the next few years he would rewrite history and change it to how we know it now.

Native Americans were somehow powerful and had everything that English colonists wanted. They were seeking wealth and they had the answers in Jamestown. When tobacco start growing, the English colony became powerful and expanded their colony over Jamestown peninsula. Powhatan Indians were disappointed when English did not maintain a trading way with them. In 1622 Native Americans took a step forward by attacking the colony. They killed 347 colonists. As it is stated on the second chapter of the book, The American Yawp, “The colonist retaliated and revisited the massacres upon Indian settlements many times over. The Massacre freed the colonist to drive the Indians off their land.” Once the English colony gained power, they forgot about the people who kept them alive, they forgot about Native Americans. English colonists were so ungrateful and blind because they had one goal in mind, and that was to be wealthy. They didn't care how they would gain wealth. The only thing that mattered to them was gaining

Without slavery and a proper way to control native americans living on american land then there can be no stable economy. America is based upon land and what can be gained from it. Slaves work the land and indians run amuck on the land. So to justify both slavery and the removal of the indians: Slavery is the basis of the revenue from the south, and to abolish slavery will lead to a destabilization of the economy and destroy the freedoms that are trying to be achieved. Native Americans are uncontrollable and dangerous without proper enforcement from the american government. Frederick Douglas lived his life in slavery and witnessed the cruelty of a slave 's life. White slave masters are power hungry and vicious.

What is slavery? Slavery is forced labor and this forced labor is what built America and made them become more developed. “Africans peoples were captured and transported to the Americas to work. Most European colonial economies in the Americas from the 16th century through the 19th were dependant on enslaved African labor for their survival.” Many claim that enslavement was very necessary in order for America to thrive and not die off for it is now one of the best countries in the world. However, slavery was not necessary in the Americas it was just a mechanism that just stripped Africans of their human rights, giving the slave masters the “right” to abuse them. Slavery was not necessary in the Americas because without slavery America would

​When slaves came to Virginia many laws were enforced for them. Slaves were not allowed to own any belongings they were essentially property of their master. If a slaved women had children then those children followed her status as a slave. They did this so Englishmen didn’t have to take responsibility for their mixed children. In 1705 they made a law that any African American that came to America and were not Christian automatically became slaves. Slaves were mainly used to work for farming, mining, and working in factories.

A valid point Howard Zinn wrote in A People's History of the United States was that African Americans were "ensnared" into American slavery for many reasons, those of which include desperate settlers, the helplessness of Africans outside their home country, the greed of colonists, the control against rebellion, and the consequences of black and white collaboration. I believe he makes a very valid point, for all his reasons have historical evidence to back them up.

Slavery in the colonies was inevitable, but we seem to forget that Native American’s were the first to actually be enslaved by the colonists rather than the Africans. They were not treated as equals, nor respected, their land was stripped away from them bit by bit, and the only reason why they were not used as slaves throughout the majority of America’s history, was due to the fact that an unimaginable amount of them died from foreign diseases; that of which Africans had already been exposed to, due to contact with Europeans for centuries.

The first Africans arrived in Virginia while the system of indentured servitude was at its height. Not all Africans came to Virginia as slaves. For the first few decades of the Virginia colony, Black and white servants worked together on the plantations. In many instances they socialized together and even had interracial marriages. The system of racial slavery that would later evolve did not exist for the first few decades after Virginia’s

Ironically, the English repaid the Native Americans by forcing them off their land, infecting them with foreign diseases, and overhunting leaving little food left for the Indians. At first, the Native Americans were shocked and overwhelmed by the actions of the newcomers, but soon fell into horrid habits themselves; ie: the killing of Anne Hutchinson and her entire family. Decades after the Europeans had settled in New England Native Americans were being forced out and expiring at a rapid rate. All in all, the negative actions came from a new found oppression from the Europeans.

The Native Americans had nearly a hundred deaths due to the harsh winter in 1609. The colony was on the brink of failure and when the settlers got ready to abandon the colony a ship with almost 150 men carrying supplies on ships arrived. The new settlers were sent by Lord De La Warr. He was the new governor of the English colony. He later died and the new governor created a new system of laws that which then began to try to take control. The Powhatan tribe didn’t like it and later the Jamestown killed some of the Algonquians. They had their first war in 1610 known as the Anglo-Powhatan war. After the war the colony begin to decline. Then John Rolfe came to Virginia and brought tobacco to Jamestown. Tobacco saved Jamestown and ensured its economic survival. By 1619, Virginia was exporting large amounts of crops. The colony wanted to grow in production and capital so, they offered fifty acre land grants to anyone supplying their own passage to attract others. The Algonquians became unhappy and angrier with the settlers because of their insatiable need for

Spain and Britain treated the Native Americans like slaves and participated in the slave trade. Nevertheless, the Spanish government prohibited Florida Indians to be slaves since it was the law and it was practiced in other spanish colonies. The governors of Florida and its religious leaders allowed the Hispanic colonists oppressed Indians to do labor for little or no wages. Many Native Americans were badly treated, poorly fed, and died because of forced labor. St. Augustine was mostly built by Indians with forced labor. There were slaves in Florida, but not as many in England’s Carolina colony where there were twice as many Africans as whites.