Did the Native Americans Felt sorry for the African Slaves?

Question

I'm light skin African-American and I was told my father who also is light skin black and strangers, mexicans when I was kid they told my mom that I have Native American in me (I guess the Blood) how can I find that out if it is true. Anyways What did the native americans do when the white people bring the African slaves here. Were they was open to them and felt so sorry for them and help.

Black people didn't take nothing from the Indians to the first person who answer. They were slaves so how did they take things from Indian people here in America. White people took everything from them and Africans. Y'all don't except that African people did do something in the world before there where slaves.

DAMN! people don't get mad or smart with me!

I don't really care about you stupid human-beings and also Why would the Natives People will enslave the Africans for. Black people are the most hated race on earth. This make me be ashamed of my skin color or native Americans who enslave Africans to.

Answer 1

im part chickasaw / irish / dutch i was told that when a "engish" man tried to capture an indian for a slave the indian scalped him or if they did capture them they would kill their self than to continue living that way! That's why you hear and see the concept of cowboys and indians they stayed fighting!! Now the Africans went about it different. They put up with the b.s. until they ran away or became free. My great grand father married a chickasaw woman after he ran away from home soon after coming to this country that's where i got my last name Free cause when the indians meet him they gave him his name cause he was alone and free! And i imagine the indians seen what was going on with the Africans slaves and a lot of them did get together also that's why a lot of the decendants of blacks today have a lot of moles and high cheek-bones like me!!

Answer 2

I am part Cherokee and Wyandot (and also descend from a plantation family) and can only answer from the experience I've heard from ancestors, and what I've read about what went on. Not only did Cherokee (and probably other) Indian tribes endenture slaves of their own, Cherokees also enslaved Black slaves, although I don't know whether they were treated the same as white-held Black slaves. All I can come to when I think about all of this is that these were all groups (especially the Amerindian North Americans and the African slaves), and so much of the conflicts was about what some saw as self-defense and economics. It's all atrocious.

Some native Indians did help along the Underground Railroad, though. They did help each other and recognize similarities in their political and economic situations, but to the white sellters, they were viewed differently: the Indians to be exterminated, the Black slaves to be worked to death.

I can imagine that a Native American could have felt resent toward both the White settler and the African slaves the white farmer brought with him to take over the native land. Everyone was turned against everyone, which made for the complicated and ridiculous systems we've had in this country to this day.

Answer 3

I really don't know how anyone thinking themselves intelligent, can think being a slave was somehow better than living on a reservation. Neither was good. And the number of blacks who were exterminated by whites, was no less significant than the number of Natives. Both peoples were pursued and killed for attempting to escape the bounds imposed on them by whites. The fact here is that whites were committed to evil. Only a small number of them were not. And those who attempted to assist either Natives or Africans were exposed to very harsh treatment, to the point of death as well. What I am not sure of here, is whether whites who are answering with such ill-informed responses, are doing so because they don't know any better, or if it is just another form of denial, like the denial of the holocaust. In either case, it's sad. You are all responsible for your own ignorance. And there is no excuse for it. Spend your time doing real studies, instead of mouthing off about things you know little or nothing about.

Shingoshi Dao

Answer 4

Weren't most of the Native Americans wiped out prior to African slaves being brought into this country? The remaining few, I'm sure, felt a unity in their oppression. Yet what could they do? The white man considered people with darker skin as less-than-human. It's all such an ugly part of our history.

Answer 5

There were tribes who did feel empathy for the Black Slaves. you might not find them as common but like the Northern People who ran the underground railroad there were some who empathized.

Individuals are individuals and everyone needs to remember not every group is totally good or totally bad. I know several black people who have a mix of black and Cherokee along with other various Native American Tribes.

Try looking into the history of the Seminole, Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw Tribes along with other Western Tribes such as the Dakota, Blackfoot, Cheyenne and you may be surprised as to what you may find.

Answer 6

Hi there.
DNA test will identify native american ancestry.
Most native american tribes took captives and used them as slaves, so no sympathy from them. Some native americans were pressed into slavery themselves, but were unsuited to it - hence the demand for more controllable Africans. There was a little mixing of blood, but the majority of black slavery was in places were the native americans had already been cleared out, so there wasn't mass mixing.

The first large scale experience of native americans meeting black people was after the civil war, when many black people came west (a large percentage of cowboys were black) and alongside the whites drove them from their land - they saw black soldiers and cowboys aplenty, but slavery next to none.
Cheers, Steve.

Answer 7

if your home land, your mother, father, wife, horse, children, friends, dog, sister, brothers, boss, culture, your entire existence was just raped, pillaged, liquidated... funneled... consolidated, and burned into nothingness by some some weird language speaking yellowed hair people... would you care about anything? why do you care? would it make a bit of difference? but no i'm sure they didn't care. slavery then was accepted, it was understood, it was the norm. just like school shootings, or terrorist attacks today. at one time people would have been flabbergasted by the idea of a 15 year old bringing a gun to school and killing 20 people. now it happens once a week, its what people watch in the morning while getting ready for work. so no i'm sure they did not care.

Answer 8

The misery they both suffered at the hands of the expanding anglo colonialists was equally shared...

Different degrees of abuse...

But the African Americans weren't put on reservations...they proliferated under persecution, while the Native Americans almost got wiped out under the same persecution...

Damn my short-sighted ancestral greedy bastard traders in human misery long ago...

Not exactly the proudest heritage...but we did have some good anglo people who wanted to do the right thing...even to this day...but they were outnumbered then...and sometimes it seems like we still are...

But my parents raised ME right...and that's all good anglo people can really do...

Answer 9

i think of the interior of sight human beings have been very smart. we'd all be greater effective off if we gave the land returned to them and lived the way they used to. I cry each and every so often while i think of roughly how we've ruined this eye-catching united states and how terrible our ancestors dealt with those staggering human beings! the only reason u.s. have been given to be the place this is on the instant is by using taking great ingredient approximately different cultures & mendacity, cheating and stealing and utilising slave exertions. Our historic previous is shameful.

Answer 10

yes, but alot of the native americans were slaves too, the spanish conquestidors treated them far worse than african people. although both was umasingly savage like!