Native American Slavery Research Paper

With the main goal to find gold, the Europeans decided that they wanted to stay in this “New World”. After the atrocity that left thousands dead, the survivors were faced with the fight for the right of their land. With colonization came slavery, because without it European colonization would have stayed limited in North America. Slaves were defined by the Europeans as non-Christian and non-European people. In 1705, the Virginia General Assembly stated, "All servants imported and brought into the Country ... who were not Christians in their native Country ... shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion ... shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resists his master ... correcting such slave,
It is still unknown how many Natives were enslaved, but it is approximated in the tens of thousands. The Europeans would forcibly remove men, women, and children from whichever tribe they feel like. The Southern regions, whole tribes were exterminated through slavery in comparison to diseases or war. Before 1700 in the Carolinas, one fourth of all enslaved people were Native Americans. Slavery led to warfare among various tribes and many complications. Many tribes would try to escape being enslaved by moving from place to place, but that only led to dismemberment of tribes. Slavery was a major strategy used to deteriorate the Native population on the land to freeway for European settlers. Using common humanely sense, slavery is wrong always has been and always will be. The fact that any normal human can go to sleep at night knowing they bought another human being and have forced them away from their family and home and were forcibly made to work for unknown masters just to obey and follow every one of your commands is just plainly ridiculous. The fact that thousands of Native Americans were literally removed out of their land that they’ve had for decades and shipped off to a whole other country by people that decided they wanted what was theirs is completely unjust and
Laws were set in place to force the Native Americans out of their Native lands to parts of the country that was not known to them. People from the Cherokee, Muscogee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole tribes were marched at gunpoint hundreds of miles to a reservation they knew nothing about in what is today, Oklahoma. This all began in the year of 1830 when Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which forced the Native Americans to leave their homes and move to the Indian reservations. All the Indians did one of two things; they either obliged and moved considering they didn’t have a choice, or they decided to stay and fight knowing that they did not have the appropriate army to withstand the United States government. After discovering gold on their land Americans wanted the Cherokee land. The Cherokees were one of the tribes that decided they did not want to move, which led President Andrew Jackson to make a deal with them giving them land in Oklahoma and five million dollars for leaving their Native land. Some of the Cherokees still did not want to move so they asked Congress to help them, but Congress straight away denied and told them that they must leave. After this, some did agree to go, but others refused and stayed on their land. When President Jackson found out he sent General Winfield Scott to forcibly make the Cherokee move. When General Scott and his army went to the homeland