The transportation of Indians out of their natural areas to other  regions 
was a major reason Indian slavery was a failure due to their  introduction to 
diseases for which they had no immunity.  As Kenneth Stamp  notes in The 
Peculiar Institution, this was one of the reasons the attempt to  use Indians as 
slaves failed (particularly in the Carribean), along with their  inability to 
adapt to the conditions of slavery.
 
I have wondered whether Black slaves were able to adapt because they were  
culturally conditioned to accept slavery as a possible life condition.  The  
Institution was well established in Africa for hundreds of years before the  
Portugese and Asians showed up to import Black Africans to the Orient and Europe  
and the New World.
 
J South



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