[April 9, 2014] 5 Native American Communities Who Owned Enslaved Africans

Atlanta Black Star ^ | 9 April 2014 | Barbara-Shae Jackson

[11th_VA]

Stories about Black and Native American connections are rarely told within the narrow historical context shared in classrooms, history books and around family tables, but there are some details that reveal a more complete story of enslavement in the Americas.

In the 1830s, the enslavement of Blacks was established in the Indian Territory, the region that would become Oklahoma. By the late 19th century, when over half a million Africans were enslaved in the South, the southern Native American societies of that region had come to include both enslaved Blacks and small numbers of free Black people.

Though the harsh treatment of enslaved Africans largely paled in comparison to that of white slaveholders, Blacks still were treated as an underclass among Native Americas. The Five Civilized Tribes even established slave codes that protected owners’ property rights and restricted the rights of Blacks.

Here are the Five Civilized Tribes who held Black people as slaves.

Chickasaw

It is no surprise that the Native Americans knew the land well. Their knowledge became a lucrative business, especially for the Chickasaws who had keen navigation skills. They were hired by white slaveholders to traverse the terrain to capture Blacks who had escaped slavery.

The Chickasaw also held enslaved Africans of their own, and the system they established closely approximated that of white slaveholders on cotton plantations...

[machogirl]

To the PC deniers of Cherokee slaveholders, an article by NPR (recent) that the Cherokee want to expel families of former slaves (that they owned, BLACK) from the tribe.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/19/140594124/u-s-government-opposes-cherokee-nations-decision

[piasa]

The Cherokee documents where they finally sided with the confederacy are interesting in that regard- the reasons they cite for joining the confederacy include the fear that slavery would be outlawed.

[piasa]

http://www.snowwowl.com/swolfAIHslavery.html

Northwest coast slavery among the tribes

[fella]

Lots of Indian slaves interviewed here in Born in Slavery.

[piasa]

More : http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520206168

[MaxMax]

The source of black slavery is african-africans. They should all leave America and move back
to their homeland. 10k each and a free ticket, and one goat.

[bert]

one goat is obsolete

the requirement now is a five year old Toyota pickup

[vetvetdoug]

The Comanche tribe captured whites, blacks, and Mexicans and integrated them into their tribes. Quanah Parker, the last great chief of the Comanche, was the son of Chief Nocona and a captured white woman.

[Boowhoknew]

In Mississippi, before and after Statehood in 1817, Choctaws owned slaves, most slaves were black, but some were indians captured from the alabama tribes that fought with the British against the choctaws in the French and Indian wars. Choctaws also aligned with the south during the war of northern aggression (as granny was prone to say). Said all that,but you couldn’t get one of 10 african americans to give up a slot at the Silverstar in Philadelphia. But they will vote against the Mississippi state flag in the school board meetings. Why it’s a symbol of hatred and slavery. STRAIN at GNATs but Swallow Camels

[hosepipe]

IF you pay RENT(taxes) to various givernments for SOMETHING YOU OWN...

WHOSE THE SLAVE?..

[machogirl]

thanks for that info

[MaxMax]

You’re right. How did I miss that! lol