Native Americans: Personal Narrative

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What I think about the book it is well organized and each chapter is explaning a subject during all the book Snyder is using Primary and Secondary sources she explains from the beginning of American Natives to the End of Native American as we can see in the first chapter she was able to explain how the Natives would be and act. A part of a book that empressed me was that before the Natives would not care in the race for slaves they would never think that white would be superior than blacks or indians. For them everyone was the same everyone had an was in the verge to be a slave it all depend more on the age than the skin color it depend more on the age than their origin (Africa or Europe), but it was until the Spanish came it was until the …show more content…
During the colonial period of natives, captives were choosen by the basis of gender and age, not in race. For example natives will not have them captivate any person for example for a agriculture purpuse he will have grown men and strong men but this will not be slavery slavery would be have them for all life, but captivity would be only an amount of years or days in other words only in a period then later let them go. They would not see a black, white, or indian and say black is slave he works white are high standard, nothing of that they would focused in age and gender if you needed a men for work if you had a white and black they would go with the strong one. In was until the Europeans and African changed the way of thinking the europeans had have slaves since long time ago and mostly all slaves would be from Africa why Africans because they were portrayed as non human as this came to America we saw and were lerning the same way the same culture as Europeans and wanted more African slaves beacsue they were more expensive they were more capable to do more hard

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