Comparing Mary Rowlandson's Abolition Of Slavery And Summary

Abraham Lincoln quoted when passing the 13th amendment “I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states, are and henceforward shall be free.” When Americans typically think about slavery, they think about African American slaves that began in 1620 and ended in 1865 when President Lincoln abolished slavery with the 13th amendment. Slavery actually began much earlier than that starting around the 1600’s with Native Americans. Native Americans were captured, and named savages during the english settlement. After the Native Americans were captured, they were either kept as slaves in America, or they were sold to Europeans as slaves. Bartolom`e De Las Casas, a european apologist for Native American rights, wrote about the horrific wrong
Throughout her narrative the native do very kind things like giving her a bible, and allowing her to keep it and read it. She also is allowed to see her son, and read the bible to him. She is allowed to go see him at his tribe, and he is allowed to come see her at her tribe. Although they start Mary at the beginning of they story the Natives eventually allow her to have food. The Native Americans also allow Mary to knit, which she really enjoys, to trade her creations for food. In the end Mary is sold back to her husband, which ultimately shows that the Natives were kind people. In the beginning of Mary Rowlandson’s narrative the Natives aren't so nice. The Natives had rebelled against the English Settlers, killing their men and capturing the women and children. Mary Rowlandson and her children are captured. Mary talks about how she is starved, and threatened to be punished if she doesn't do what she is asked, but the hardships that Mary endured were nothing compared to what the Native Americans endured during their enslavement by the English