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To: stand watie
in point of fact, my people had kept slaves in this country

Yes, one of the real sticking points on the 13th Amendment was what to do with all the slaves owned by Indians, primarily Cherokees. The government finally decided to consider them members of the tribes which had owned them.

It's an interesting point that Europeans first tried to enslave the Indians but gave it up because Indians simply refused to be enslaved. They just died in great numbers. So the sugar barons had to look elsewhere and found the tribal kings in Africa more than willing to raid neighboring villages for people to sell. Sometimes they sold their own.

1,801 posted on 09/24/2004 10:11:37 AM PDT by Chickamauga (US Grant was our greatest general.)
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To: Chickamauga
TRUE!

and they sold them to the slavers from the north.

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1,830 posted on 09/24/2004 2:25:07 PM PDT by stand watie ( being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. damnyankee is a LEARNED prejudice.)
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