African American Settlers

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For natives when new people started to show up on their land they didn't know what to think. The new people needed people to farm the land so they payed the natives and brought there own slaves to work the lands. For the natives it was weird to be working for someone else and to be treated like slaves. So the rest of the natives families and friends fought the new people settlers to get there people back.
Africans slaves were brought from Africa to do the settlers work. They do the cooking, cleaning, farming, and almost everything the slaves owners didn't want to do. The African slaves had to stay outside a lot of the time in the stables or in separate cabins that were built away from everything else. The cabins were built to hold only like

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