30/09/2025
History says that after Native Americans were exempt from the slave trade in 1730, many of those Natives started owning Black slaves themselves. Of the Five Tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole nations), the Cherokees were the largest holder of Africans as chattel slaves.
Some of these enslaved Blacks served as English interpreters and translators for their Indian slave owners. However, a majority of them worked as laborers on farms of their owners or servants in homes.
Some historians say that Cherokee slaveowners were less barbarous than White slaveowners. But the story of slaveholder James Vann shows otherwise. The half-white half-Cherokee landowner owned around one hundred Black slaves who worked on his plantation in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. He was described as an abusive alcoholic who terrorized his slaves, sometimes whipping them and even burning their cabins.
SOURCE: Face2FaceAfrica
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/the-bravery-of-the-enslaved-blacks-who-led-the-massive-1842-slave-revolt-in-the-cherokee-nation
