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6 Responses to “They talk about the Indians selling the settlers to the French for slaves. Did you know before this book that they did that?”
no i didn’t, I knew that there was slave trade of some sort but i thought when the indians captured english (and french before the war) they either ransomed them for there own people (who had been captured) or killed them.
May 10th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
No I did not, I thought that they killed the settlers at once.
May 11th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
yes i did that was on of the first functions of the sanit lawrence river
May 11th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
no i didnt know that. i would have thought the english would have had french people as slaves instead of the other way around
May 11th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Rachel,
You mean that the river was used to traffic slaves? Interesting.
May 13th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
no i didn’t, I knew that there was slave trade of some sort but i thought when the indians captured english (and french before the war) they either ransomed them for there own people (who had been captured) or killed them.
May 17th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
yes i did no that but i thought mainly they just killed them