ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

ECONOMICS

TRADE EXCHANGE AND INTERDEPENDENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first people to become enslaved were native Americans but why did this not last as long as the enslavement of African people?
A
Many natives died from European Diseases and they effectively resisted.
B
The native people could hide more effectively since they lived in the Americas and new the terrain.
C
They all died of and became extinct
D
They knew of secret cities of gold and would buy their freedom
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Why did it take so long for Indigenous enslavement to end in the United States? The constitutional amendment that ended enslavement of Black people did not apply to Indigenous people because they were not considered citizens of the United States until 1924.

Detailed explanation-2: -Slavery in ancient times typically came about as a result of debt, birth into a slave family, child abandonment, war, or as a punishment for crime.

Detailed explanation-3: -Diseases such as treponemiasis and tuberculosis were already present in the New World, along with diseases such as tularemia, giardia, rabies, amebic dysentery, hepatitis, herpes, pertussis, and poliomyelitis, although the prevalence of almost all of these was probably low in any given group.

Detailed explanation-4: -Both before and during African enslavement in the Americas, American Indians were forced to labor as slaves and in various other forms of unfree servitude. They worked in mines, on plantations, as apprentices for artisans, and as domestics-just like African slaves and European indentured servants.

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