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- Title
ROLE OF THE INDIAN IN THE RACE RELATIONS COMPLEX OF THE SOUTH.
- Authors
Bloom, Leonard
- Abstract
The role of Indians in the complex of race relations in the South is one which thus far has appeared to have escaped any systematic investigation. In the frontier situation one of the most significant factors contributing to the destruction of Indian resistance to white intrusion and to the destruction of intertribal balance was the practice of purchasing the captives of their native allies. The enslavement, which at first was an accompaniment to warfare, shortly became a motive in itself and a cause of prolonging the Indian wars. In Carolina, Indian slaves were rather numerous. In the French colonies during the early part of the eighteenth century Afro-American slaves were outnumbered by the Indian slaves. The genetic contribution of the Indian to the Afro-American population has been underestimated. This crossing took place both in the plantations of the South, where Afro-Americans and Indians worked side by side in the fields. The importance of Indians, historically, was as a conditioning element, a part of the environment in which this different structure of Western civilization was nourished.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas; RACE relations; ETHNIC groups; ETHNOLOGY; SLAVERY
- Publication
Social Forces, 1940, Vol 19, Issue 2, p268
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2571309