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Why does this text seem to read only into the social issues of history? Due to this, none of this can be used for research regarding political and economic history. I have read many of these chapters, and I have observed this. Is it meant to be a social construct piece?

I’m interested in contributing content to this section regarding the Third World Liberation Front and the establishment of Ethnic  Studies, establishing a foothold of counterculture, Student Activism, and Black & Brown narrative in academia and Higher Education.

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Historians estimate that between 24,000 and 51,000 Native Americans were forced into slavery throughout the southern colonies between 1670 and 1715.  ((Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South 1670–1717 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), 299.)) While some of the enslaved Indians remained in the region, many were exported through Charles Town, South Carolina, to other ports in the British Atlantic—most likely to Barbados, Jamaica, and Bermuda. Many of the English colonists who wished to claim land in frontier territories were threatened by the violence inherent in the Indian slave trade. By the eighteenth century, colonial governments often discouraged the practice, although it never ceased entirely as long as slavery was, in general, a legal institution.

After the Pequot war 1636-1637 Massachusetts Bay colonist sold 100’s of north American into slavery in the west indies. New York and New Jersey enslaved Algonquian Indians during Kieft’s war 1641-1645 and the two Esopus wars 1659-1663. 100’s of Indians were bound and shipped into slavery.

During the 17th century captain Thomas Philips master of a slave ship in 1694 quoted that he thought it was essential value that one skin color was better than the other. That White is better than black.

In the 1600’s became a turning point for Afrikaans in Virgina and North America and Barbados in the west indies. Afrikaans were challenged by new laws which gave them legal sanctions to enslavement for life.

English traders were at war with Indians which introduced purchasing of enslaved captives. Although ministers baptized and educated enslaved captives, some were unable to overcome the masters fear of Christian baptism that would leave into slave emancipation and claiming white servants were “good for nothing at all”.

In American colonies new populations jeopardized resources and made land into something else.