While researching for my book, I found instances of Free Blacks & Mulattoes 
(another name for Native), who owned slaves. One of my ancestors owned, and 
freed slaves, (including a female who married his brother). Since Natives 
and Free Blacks were under siege, it is highly unlikely they would have held 
large amounts of slaves. Slavery was an international business with ships 
leaving slave states headed for European Markets. That meant a requirement 
for a shipping industry, and connections that Free Blacks and Natives did 
not have.

Anita


>From: Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history         
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>Subject: Re: SLAVE OWNERSHIP BY NATIVE AMERICANS IN VIRGINIA
>Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:29:05 -0500
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>By statute, blacks and Native Americans were barred from buying and owning 
>white servants in 17th century Virginia.  Indian slave ownership existed in 
>the deep South but not apparently in the upper South.
>
>Harold S. Forsythe
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>Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:24 AM
>Subject: SLAVE OWNERSHIP BY NATIVE AMERICANS IN VIRGINIA
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>>Does anyone know of any research or articles on the ownership of slaves by
>>Native Americans in Virginia?
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