Slavery among Native Americans in the United States includes slavery by and enslavement of Native Americans roughly within what is currently the United States of America.
Native American being enslaved by Virginia colonists in the 17th century
Engraving of Spaniards enslaving Native Americans by Theodor de Bry (1528–1598), published in America. part 6. Frankfurt, 1596.
Statue representing Sacagawea (ca. 1788–1812), a Lemhi Shoshone who was taken captive by the Hidatsa people and sold to Toussaint Charbonneau
The Pequot War resulted in the enslavement of some of the surviving Pequot by English colonists in New England.
Trail of Tears
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The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of about 60,000 Native Americans of the "Five Civilized Tribes", including their black slaves, between 1830 and 1850 by the United S
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States
…Civilized Tribes were relocated, the majority having been forcibly moved to Indian Territory (later, the state of Oklahoma). This relocation, known as the Trail of Tears, brought along with it the practice of Native Americans owning enslaved Africans. Of the estimated 4,500 to 5,000 Black slaves in the Indian Territory…
The Trail of Tears memorial at the New Echota Historic Site in Georgia, which honors the Cherokees who died on the Trail of Tears
George W. Harkins, Choctaw chief
Alexis de Tocqueville, French political thinker and historian
Seminole warrior Tuko-see-mathla, 1834