Allowed by their owners to bring up their children and organize their domestic lives, they carried out their chores, cooking, making clothes, and their leisure activities all within distance of their masters house enabled the slave community to flourish. ... Parents lived with their children although husbands might belong to another property. ... Slaves baptized in rivers where reminded of their African past "what mattered was that the convert understood God's work in his or her heart; it was not important if the minutiae of doctrine remained unknown and incomprehensible (Walvin 2001;p161...

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Even though most Native American tribes held prisoners of war captive, there were some circumstances in which growth of a tribe was threatened, resulting in the capturing of mostly women and children as sort of an "adoption" strategy (Davis). ... Benjamin Hawkins, who was the Superintendent of the tribes south of the Ohio River at the time, strongly and forcefully encouraged several southeastern tribes to adopt chattel slavery in order to have enough labor for their plantations and agricultural production, as part of their adaptation of European ways. ...

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