[MrEdd]

That’s pretty silly.
The Native Americans were really good at slavery long before Columbus.

[Ben Ficklin]

Native Americans behaved like people all over the world. Prisoners of war or conflict would be held as slaves, but none were born into slavery.

And after the Europeans arrived, they would sometimes sell their prisoner/slaves to the Europeans.

And some native Americans would become owners of African slaves.

The first workers imported were indentured servants from Europe and some of the first Africans would come as indentured servants and after they worked off their debt and gained their freedom some would become slave owners.