CHEROKEE SLAVE REVOLT OF 1842: American Indians as Slave Owners

CHEROKEE SLAVE REVOLT OF 1842 ^ | 1996 | Art T. Burton

[rface]

I haven't checked into it, but I wonder if any of these tribes...Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws or Seminoles have any Casinos that the "Reparations for Slavery" lawsuit lawyers would be interested in?

Ashland, Missouri

[afraidfortherepublic]

courtesy ping

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I thought you'd enjoy. Also, do you agree with me that since Thomas Jefferson, George Washington (both Southerners) along with many other founding fathers owned slaves we should take their faces off of our currency, desecrate their graves and remove their names from the many schools named after them?

[AzJP]

Those five tribes were called "The five civilized tribes"?
I can imagine what a Hopi would think of that!

[ElkGroveDan]

I sense an interesting story, but it reads as if the paragraphs were inserted at random.

[stainlessbanner]

Ping!

[toenail]

bump for later

[Map Kernow]

Oooo! I just LOVE a good political dilemma for the PC jackasses, especially one they can't sweep under the rug. With any luck, this issue'll be one of them.

[Free the USA]

DIXIE'S CENSORED SUBJECT BLACK SLAVEOWNERS

[uncbob]

Some Indian slave owners were as harsh and cruel as any white slave master.

Well with the import of slaves forbidden it seems to me it wouldn't make sense to maltreat a slave anymore than a horse or ox that you needed tro work the land

I remember reading that when the swamps were being drained in LA ( a very life threatening job ) they would not use slaves but hired HIBERNIANS since another boatload was coming over next week and slaves could only be replaced through reproduction

[CatoRenasci]

I guess the blacks looking for reparations ought to sue the Indian tribes that have casinos!

[LWalk18]

Guess that's why most of the Cherokees joined the Confederacy during the Civil War.

[Dead Dog]

Cool, I'm part Chocktaw...like maybe 1/7th.

[livius]

Very interesting. Nobody, of course, wants to know all of the inconvenient details about slavery.

Here in Florida, during the British period (slavery was forbidden under Spanish rule), a Scots doctor brought in a large shipment of Minorcan, Greek and Italian slaves. They were technically indentured servants, but he forgot to let them go, as well as forgetting to pay them...In any case, he hired the cruelest slave drivers he could find: blacks from Georgia.

And they were indeed cruel, punishing infractions with beatings and stonings, including one occasion when the slaves were forced to stone to death a boy who had committed the infraction of arriving late at the fields because he was going to the school run by the two priests who had accompanied the group.

The slaves finally escaped by rebelling and seeking the protection of the British Governor at St. Augustine, who ordered that they be freed.

Of course, at the same time, Florida had its own free black population, left over from the Spanish period, as well as many Indians, including, if I'm not mistaken, people who were probably Cherokees.

Reparations - from whom, to whom?

[Dead Dog]

Choctaw that is, my appologies to the full blooded type that can spell.

[fhayek]

This reminds me of an old Star Trek episode, the one with NOMAD. I can see smoke bellowing from the ears of the PC'ers as they try to resolve this one in their minds.

[breakem]

Indians, I don't recall which tribe, used to come down into what is now New Mexico and trade slaves (other tribes) for horses and goods with the Spanish.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Didn't quite get whay you are saying.