I believe Indian slavery began with Columbus, (1400s) as he did steal many Indians and took them to Spain to sell as slaves...He sold as slaves those he could catch that would bring him the most money... In England before they came over here, the English would enslave only those who were non-christian, regardless of their race...and that carried over to here for a time, but around 1700 they began to change the indentured slaves, (Indian and African) into permanent slaves. A good site to read about it is: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html B. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Lori0602h@aol.com> To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] Harper - Which SixTown location & other questions > Barbara: > > Your comments are very interesting about Indians being slaves. I know that > they were. However, how were they chosen? Did everything depend on being a > Christian? When did the Indian indenture slavery begin? > > Lori > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > Need more CHOCTAW information?? Try Rusty Lang's website at http://www.choctaw-web.com for censuses, genealogy lessons, articles, etc. > >