Throughout the years, slavery has played a dominant role within the Cherokee Nation, inevitably affecting thousands of African Americans, American Indians, and Europeans alike. ... The majority of these violent Indian wars occurred in the southern United States. ... The Indian slave trade began to negatively affect the social aspects of many of these tribes, particularly when gender roles in their communities were taken into consideration. ... Meigs, Sr. counted 583 African American slaves held by Cherokee Indians (Davis). ... The Bureau of Indian Affairs stated that th...

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But- and herein lay the real originality of the system- unlike the attitude of the nobles toward the bourgeoisie, the lords toward the serfs, or the Brahmans toward the other Indian castes, the gér could not materially exploit the lower castes without losing face in the eyes of others, as well as their own. ...

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