@shinobinoz Said 
At the risk of coming under attack for posting in "News & Current Events"
RECENTLY RE-DISCOVERED historical facts:
"Indian slavery disappeared from post-World War I scholarship, writes Newell, as historians “reconstructed the compelling narrative of the Puritan migration…. Many of these works stressed the uniqueness of New England culture and sought there the origins of American exceptionalism.”
While she was researching her first book, From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England, Newell says, she stumbled across a list of American Indian slaves in Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was surprised, having understood, as did most everyone else, that New England colonists neither needed nor wanted American Indian slave labor—Indians didn’t make good slaves, they ran away, they had disappeared.
But the enslavement of the Indigenous Peoples of New England was integral to the very fabric of colonial life even as early as the 1620s, says Newell. The colonial economy depended on slavery, many well-to-do households functioned only because of slavery, early colonial legal codes were devised to justify slavery and the Pequot War and King Philip’s War were fought in large measure to perpetuate slavery."
Read more at https://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/01/18/american-indian-slavery-sinners-and-secrets-brethren-nature-163054
It would probably be a safe assumption that if native Americans had worked out as slaves , the African slave trade wouldn't have been the profitable trade that it became in North America . This of course changes nothing as far as what is shown to be terrible, when the light that history sheds on the acts of the white European people against both the Native Americans and the African slaves.
Jan 15, 2016 @ 02:49:19
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