FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA
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Question
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Native Americans could not endure the harsh working conditions.
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Native Americans refused to work, even as slaves.
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Native Americans successfully fought off European slave traders.
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There were not enough Native Americans to perform the labor required.
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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: -As one scholar has put it, “slaves ‘naturally’ resisted their enslavement because slavery was fundamentally unnatural.”1 Forms varied, but the common denominator in all acts of resistance was an attempt to claim some measure of freedom against an institution that defined people fundamentally as property.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many resisted slavery in a variety of ways, differing in intensity and methodology. Among the less obvious methods of resistance were actions such as feigning illness, working slowly, producing shoddy work, and misplacing or damaging tools and equipment.
Detailed explanation-4: -European planters thought Africans would be more suited to the conditions than their own countrymen, as the climate resembled that the climate of their homeland in West Africa. Enslaved Africans were also much less expensive to maintain than indentured European servants or paid wage labourers.