Native Americans were also enslaved in many 
areas of North America, sometimes by other 
Native Americans and sometimes by European 
settlers, both in the English and the Spanish 
colonies.

For information on this in Colonial South 
Carolina, see Walter Edgar's South Carolina: 
A History (1998), pages 85 - 87 as well as 
pages 98 through 100.

Elizabeth Whitaker

Mary Moyars-Johnson wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Paul Finkelman wrote:
>> 4:  Perhaps the worst aspect of slavery was not the work or even the 
>> physical punishment, but the denial of the right of slaves to be truly 
>> married and raise their families (this is one reason why American 
>> slavery was so much worse than serfdom).  The slave trade was the 
>> major vehicle for undermining slave families.
> 
> The term "American slavery" is  too general.
> The French in mid-America baptized, married and buried their black - and 
> red - slaves in the Catholic Church.
> (See the records of the village of Chartres by Brown and Dean.)
> In Ste. genevieve, MO,  the French actually armed the slaves and had 
> them patrol the town at night for any sign of Indian attacks.
> 
> 
> Mary Moyars-Johnson  (MMJ)

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