Indians never bought slaves. Mr. Boulware it is not true that the Native American Indians owned slaves.
Please show any photos of Native Indians at the slave auction blocks buying slaves when the slave ships docked like you see the photos of White men buying slaves from the slave traders!
You have been mis-led Mr. G. Boulware! You are ignorant.
@ Harry
Yes the Natives did and I have photos to proof it and Greg can easily Google this!
It is high time that you stop this charade of this new race stuff because you don't know what you are talking about!
And don't try using some auction blocks to get out of the truth.......
Learn to talk about other things because you are devoid of truth on this subject matter
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South Carolina's First Slaves – Native Americans
South Carolina's first slaves were neither black nor were they from Africa. They were Native Americans who had lived along the rivers of the Lowcountry and among the mountains of the Upstate for thousands of years before the first European settler even arrived. As historian Patrick Minges explains,
No sooner had they set foot on shore near Charleston than [did] the English set about establishing the "peculiar institution" of Native American slavery. Seeking the gold that had changed the face of the Spanish Empire but finding none, the English settlers of the Carolinas quickly seized upon the most abundant and available resource they could attain. The indigenous peoples of the Southeastern United States became, themselves, a commodity on the open market.
Native American tribes in South Carolina were often at war with one another. In consequence, they learned to hunt down and capture members of enemy tribes, selling them to whites as slaves. Others, of course, were captured and sold by the new settlers directly. In either case, Native Americans made up a large share of South Carolina's seventeenth and eighteenth century slave population.
In time, however, white planters began to "phase out" the use of Native Americans on their plantations. For one thing, they had decided that Africans were far better suited to the back-breaking work of cultivating rice than Indians were. For another, black people seemed to have a stronger resistance to white diseases like small pox and yellow fever. And finally, white people learned that if a Native American slave ran away, they probably weren't going to find him again. Native Americans were all too familiar with the nooks and crannies of "the new world." They knew where to hide, and they knew how to find help. If they could escape, they could take refuge in the midst of a nearby tribe.
Nevertheless, strong ties formed between South Carolina's Native Americans and the Africans that were brought to her shore. These ties were especially strong in regards to religion. Minges points out some of the other bonds Indians and blacks shared:
In addition to working together in the fields, they lived together in communal living quarters, began to produce collective recipes for food and herbal remedies, shared myths and legends, and ultimately intermarried. Apart from their collective exploitation at the hands of colonial slavery, Africans and Native Americans possessed similar worldviews rooted in their historic relationship to the subtropical coastlands of the middle Atlantic.
If you are interested in learning more about South Carolina's Native American slaves, you may want to read Minges' article in full. It is called All My Slaves, Whether Negroes, Indians, Mustees, or Molattoes,
lack Ivory – Africa's Export
As with Native Americans, Africans were often sold into slavery by enemy tribes. However, as Christopher C. Boyle points out in his essay Rise of the Georgetown Rice Culture,
The most common reasons for selling tribal members to the Europeans were for offenses against society, such as murder or theft, offenses against the king, or even personal or tribal misfortunes such as indebtedness or tribal famine.
But whatever the reason, he says, "the sale of human lives was profitable for African tribal kings and the European traders as well as the colonial planters."
Small Pox Poster
Most of the slaves brought to South Carolina came from the West Coast of Africa – and more specifically from a region called the Gold Coast. As Johann Martin Bolzius noted in his An Account on Life in the Carolinas in 1750, "The best Negroes come from the Gold Coast in Africa, namely Gambia and Angolo."
However, as Boyle explains, "some slaves, mostly prisoners of inter-tribal warfare, came from as far as 700 miles into the interior of the Africa."
One of the reasons South Carolina planters wanted slaves from the coastal regions of Africa was that they already knew how to grow rice. In fact, Boyle notes that "rice growing had been a dominant part of [coastal] African culture since 1500 BC."
Read A Rice Plantation on the Santee River