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Fellow VA-Hist list subscribers:
"Deerskins were certainly the bulkiest but not always the most valuable
commodities Englishmen extracted from the piedmont. Trudging alongside the
horses or perched atop the packs of peltry were children--some only three
years old, yet already worth more than their weight in deerskins--destined
for a life of servitude on a tobacco plantation, The attention focused upon
South Carolina's trade in Indian slaves has obscured Virginia's version. It
is clear however, that this branch of the trade peaked in the latter half
of the seventeenth century, coinciding closely with the expansion of
colonial commerce into the highlands, Virginia laws marched right in step,
making it progressively easier to convert free natives unfree laborers
until, in 1682, any Indian brought into the colony could be legally enslaved."
Merrell, James H. "The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their neighbors
from European contact through the era of removal." New York: W. W. Norton &
Company, 1989. Page 36.
Quoted by:
Jim Glanville
Retired Chemist
201 Graves Avenue
Blacksburg, Virginia 24060
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