Europeans did a thriving business in Native American slaves.  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.

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>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:02:59 EDT
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>Subject: Re: Islamic Slavery (was Re: Slavery and immoral stance, etc.)  
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>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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