1. Slavery in the Cherokee Nation and the Freedmen Controversy
... an African American slave was Nancy Ward. She was known as the "Beloved Woman" of the Wolf clan. Her husband was killed during a war with the Muskogees and she fell in, took his place, and finished out the war with his weapon. Although Native American tribes practiced some form of slavery before the introduction of African slavery in North America, none exploited slave labor ... any monetary value, but were often exchanged in order to reclaim previous members of a tribe; slavery may not actually be an accurate representation of how these particular people were treated. Warrior captives ...
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