Why didnt the europeans that migrated to the US use the native americans for slaves......?

Question

...Rather than go to the trouble of shipping over africans? Wouldnt they cooperate? And if European diseases kill off the native american indians, why didn't their diseases kill off the Europeans?

Answer 1

They did, but in a different way. They were forced into controlled areas and killed for not cooperating. Getting the Africans wasn't hard, there were tribes that captured and sold slaves to the traders (they sure didn't get them themselves). Using the natives would be sort of like Iraq, it is their house and they know the terrain. They have friends that will help them rebel and resist. Taking someone out of their natural element and changing everything they have known their entire life made them much easier to control.

And there was no such thing as disease in much of the world until the Europeans invaded. All the Americas, many places in Africa and Asia never knew what the plague was until it was taken to them.

Answer 2

The Europeans did use the Native Americans as slaves, a lot of them died from disease, and some Natives would just walk off and do other things, they didn't understand they were 'slaves'. That is why they started to ship Africans over as slaves. Many Europeans did die from diseases in the 'New World.'

Answer 3

Actually, they did. Read a history book by someone other than the "winner," and you will see many truths come out. But many First Nations people were kept in big pens (like pig pens are today) and tied up with ropes around their necks. The attitude was that the First Nations peoples were "savages" and "beasts" that had to be kept tied up and used for labor. However, the women were good enough to rape. I recall reading this in some of my text books that I had in college (7 years ago) and in the books I used when I teach First Nations History. I remember reading about this in particular regarding the tribes on the East coast (SCOOMT - Seneca, Cayuga, Onandaga, Oneida, Muskogee, Tuscarora) and perhaps the Iroquios.

The Europeans probably had more of an immune system to their own diseases whereas First Nations peoples were never exposed to the diseases until later in life. Therefore, their immune system was not as built up as the Europeans'.

Answer 4

Actually the Spanish -did- use Indians for slaves in Mexico, Central America, South America, and along the west coast. The missions in California were built by Indians who were basically enslaved by the Spanish priests. For the good of their souls, of course.

As for native American diseases killing off Europeans, I read somewhere that Europeans developed immunities by living with their animals. In the Middle Ages, people brought the animals in the house at night. So they got used to exchanging virusses with them. The Indians didn't have any domesticated animals except the llama in Peru!

Answer 5

As for native diseases, there were diseases the natives were immune to that were dangerous or fatal to Europeans, just not as many. It is known that there was a particular strain of syphilis in the New World that when the Europeans were exposed to basically interacted with European syphilis to create a "superstrain" resulting in a major outbreak beginning in seaports in the Mediterranean by returning sailors ca. 1500 and spreading through Europe, Asia, and North Africa (millions died). However, since Euro diseases were more quick acting, more natives died. Those who were born after contact to parents who had survived the disease usually inherited immunity to European diseases, which is why there wasn't another massive death.
The highest rate of infectious fatal diseases to Europeans was in South America. The Spanish and Portugese in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, etc., died in droves when they first penetrated the rain forests due to disease the indigenous tribes had been immune to for thousands of years; that's one reason that to this day many rain forest tribes are still isolated- the Euros became too terrified to go there and left them alone.

Answer 6

Native Americans:
Knew the land = Better escaping
Harder to maintain
Couldn't communicate well
Disease killed them off

Native americans didn't have immunities to the european diseases, europeans did have that immunity because they developed it through natural selection. African americans had previously been in contact with europeans so they have some of these immunities also.

Answer 7

this question could take alongside time to respond to by way of fact there's a great form of motives. As a aboriginal person myself, my question could be how come they did no longer use there own human beings as slaves on the grounds that they did in Europe. How come they did no longer deliver them over right here with them? They further each little thing else over from ailment, cockroaches, or perhaps the rats. Slavery is a type of administration, greed, laziness, and questioning your extra powerful then something. as properly, interior of sight human beings in maximum situations did no longer make solid slaves, considering that they had allot of satisfaction. i'm no longer making mild of my fact the two, merely declaring information.

Answer 8

Well, but they did.

Read about the California missions and how the Spanish treated the native Americans...pretty much like slavery. Here's a start...in this article, skip down to "History" section.

http://ceres.ca.gov/nahc/califindian.html

Answer 9

call it "chance" that europeans had diseases that decimated NA populations and the NAs did not have such deadly diseases... they first tried white indentured servants, but not enough would come.... then tried Native Americans, but they were diseased and not numerous enough to handle the huge plantations....

Answer 10

My guess would be because the Native Americans were (and still are) a proud people who fought for their land and lives.