Re: The joy of Democracy

On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 13:21:15 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

They enslaved people from other tribes, too. Without plantation
agriculture it wasn’t that common.

When I see some of the mound building projects in the southeast I have to
wonder if all the people hauling dirt in baskets were free.

The indigenous tribes were a lot like the Europeans. When Dublin was the
center of the slave trade in Europe the dealers would head to Wales,
Britain, Scotland, or the Irish hinterlands to restock. The slaves were
white but not Norse so they were fair game. If the Mohawks enslaved
Mohecans it was the same effect. There were no racial differences, only
ethnic.

African slavery put a different spin on it.