Lyle,
Thank you for answering the question, so eloquently.

Anita


>From: "Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history         
>      <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Islamic Slavery (was Re: Slavery and immoral stance, etc.)
>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:11:41 -0400
>
>On Jun 14, 2007, at 6:51 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>>Europeans did a thriving business in Native American slaves.
>"Business" is the crux of the issue. Ruthless opportunists saw a  means of 
>accumulating capital by grabbing NA folks, selling them and  not giving a 
>tinker's whether they survived later or not. That  mentality was alive 
>later during both World Wars where multi-national  corporations working 
>through third parties effectively bought and  sold commodities to the 
>Kaiser and to Hitler's war machines. Amoral  capitalism is the apt label.
>
>People were a commodity and a profitable one at that.
>
>The task of the moral person is to expose that for what it is and to  stop 
>it in that time. Somewhere, sometime, it will again crop up and  again must 
>be stopped. Good versus evil, never ending battle.
>
>Lyle Browning, RPA
>
>
>>Most of the enslaved Native Americans wound up working (and dying  
>>prematurely) in the Caribbean colonies.  See, eg., Alan Gallay's  book on 
>>the slave trade, which describes in some detail the slave  trade among 
>>Native Americans, and the enslavement of Native  Americans, in the 
>>colonial South.
>>
>>---- Original message ----
>>>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:02:59 EDT
>>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: Re: Islamic Slavery (was Re: Slavery and immoral stance,  etc.)
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>>The Europeans had little success "enslaving" the Native Americans due
>>>largely to the fact they resisted slavery and refused to be  dominated in 
>>>that
>>>manner.  Certain Native American tribes were of use to the  Europeans, 
>>>and  later
>>>Americans, in tracking and finding runaway Black  slaves.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.
>>Department of History
>>James Madison University

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