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They practiced it because they were humans, and humans have a built-in propensity to divide ourselves into Us and Them, if Us gets power over Them, we do what we can to abuse and subjugate Them.
It's something we must become aware of and fight against in our human nature, just as we fight against our propensity to take that which does not belong to us.
Traditions of Native American slavery Edit
Many Native American tribes practiced some form of slavery before the European introduction of African slavery into North America.[1]
Native American groups often enslaved war captives whom they primarily used for small-scale labor.[1] Others however, were used in ritual sacrifice,[1] usually involving torture as part of religious rites, and these sometimes involved ritual cannibalism.[2]
There were several differences between slavery as practiced in the pre-colonial era among Native Americans and slavery as practiced by Europeans after colonization. Whereas Europeans eventually came to look upon slaves of African descent as being racially inferior, Native Americans took slaves from other Native American groups, and therefore did not have the same racial ideology for their slavery. Native slaves could be looked down upon as ethnically inferior, however.[1] Another difference was that Native Americans did not buy and sell captives in the pre-colonial era, although they sometimes exchanged enslaved individuals with other tribes in peace gestures or in exchange for redeeming their own members.[1] In some cases, Native American slaves were allowed to live on the fringes of Native American society until they were slowly integrated into the tribe.[1] The word "slave" may not accurately apply to such captive people.[1]
Long story short, salvery ocurred/occurs everywhere.
Yes this is true...slavery has gone on forever... using others
They practiced it because they were humans, and humans have a built-in propensity to divide ourselves into Us and Them, if Us gets power over Them, we do what we can to abuse and subjugate Them.
It's something we must become aware of and fight against in our human nature, just as we fight against our propensity to take that which does not belong to us.
Slavery used to be as normal a part of life in most places as TV is today. It was unremarkable and no more controversial or objectionable than body odor or bad teeth, which were also commonplace. In the late 18th Century, in Western nations, people started asking questions about it. Eventually, people because convinced it was wrong and led to its abolition in Western nations.
Indians, like almost all other peoples, practiced slavery. Africans practiced among themselves. Indians, Middle Easterners, Chinese, all practiced slavery. It was a normal feature of almost every society.
Many cultures all over the planet had slaves of one sort or another throughout time.
MightyQueen81 got it exactly. Its part of the human condition to seperate "us vs. them". Once something or someone is a "them", whether its color, gender, ethnicity or economic differences, they are just a resource. Pretty common. We humans are not very nice. Its why we have to have laws with consequences.
What led to the Five Civilized tribes to adopt slavery?
This is from a few years back when some Cherokee Freedmen(Black slave descendants of the Cherokee)were trying to get recognized as members of the Cherokee.
What’s your point? Europe abolished slavery before the US. It happened, everybody but the US South and some isolated societies realized it slavery is horrible. Done. Why justify this? It’s like the fb meme going around that says Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, so Trump is not a racist.
I don't know why people have this romanticized belief that Native Americans overall were a peace loving race of people living in harmony with nature. They weren't. They were human beings like the rest of us. They had slaves, had wars, sacrificed people for religious purposes and killed vast numbers of animals causing the extinction of some species. In many respects, they weren't all that different in this regard than early Europeans or any other people across the globe.
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