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