European enslavement of Indigenous Americans: Difference between revisions

After the mid-1700s, it becomes more difficult to track the history of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] enslavement in what became the [[United States]] outside the [[Southwestern United States|territories that would be acquired]] after the [[Mexican–American War]]. Indian slavery had declined on a large scale, and as a result, those Native Americans who were still enslaved were either not recorded or they were not differentiated from African slaves.{{sfn|Lauber|1913|pp=105–117}} For example, in [[Rhode Island]] Sarah Chauqum was listed her as a [[mulatto]], but she won her freedom by proving her [[Narragansett people|Narragansett]] identity.{{sfn|Newell|2009|pp=33–666}} That said, records and slave narratives archived by the [[Works Progress Administration]] (WPA) clearly indicate that the enslavement of Native Americans continued in the 1800s, mostly through kidnappings. One example is a WPA interview with a former slave, Dennis Grant, whose mother was full-blooded Native American.{{sfn|Yarbrough|2008|pp=112–123}} She was kidnapped as a child near [[Beaumont, Texas]] in the 1850s, made a slave, and later forced to become the wife of another enslaved person.