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. >>> >>> >>> >>>************************************** See what's free at http:// >>>www.aol.com. >>Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D. >>Department of History >>James Madison University _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail to go? Get your Hotmail, news, sports and much more! http://mobile.msn.com