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Indian and African slavery was always a tool of European expansion. To depopulate the Carolinas and Florida of their original inhabitants in order to introduce plantation agriculture (along with the international market for commodities and labor), English and American settlers and their Indian allies captured hundreds of Indians and forced their removal from their native lands. This was accompanied by violence, rape, and warfare. From 1670 to 1720 more Indians were exported out of Charleston, South Carolina, than Africans were imported as slaves—even though Charleston was a major port city for African slaves. The Choctaws and their neighbors in the Lower Mississippi Valley, battered by raiders spent most of their lives working on plantations in the West Indies.8
One peculiarity of American history was the possession of African slaves by Native Americans. From the early times of colonial America Indian slaves, African slaves, and European indentured servants all lived and worked together. Over time many of the Native Americans became partially assimilated and absorbed many aspects of white European–American culture, including the “peculiar institution” of African chattel slavery.