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This 5 page paper discusses the legal status of these two groups during the early colonial days of this country. Paper also discusses similarities between these two groups. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and 1800s. This time period saw legalized slavery and the attempted destruction of Native American lands and homes in order for white colonists to assert their control in regards
to both of these matters. The African Slaves African slaves, and the children of the female slaves, were legally the property
of their masters for their entire lives (Holt, 2002). The race of the slaves, that of Africans, and "their life-long legal status as property is what primarily distinguished slaves
from white European indentured servants, who were also coerced laborers for fixed terms and who formed the vast proportion of the agricultural labor supply in the tobacco-growing colonies of Virginia
and Maryland for most of the seventeenth century" (Holt, 2002). By the time of the Declaration of Independence, slavery was legal and was part of every Northern and
Southern colony (Holt, 2002). It was only after the American Revolution that the issue of slavery and the legalities involved began to change (Holt, 2002). After the American
Revolution slavery was abolished in the northern states (Holt, 2002). "The eradication of slavery in western areas north of the Ohio River
bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance mandated that slavery was prohibited in the
Northwest Territory (Holt, 2002). The Northwest Territory included Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin (Holt, 2002). It is interesting
to note however that south of the Northwest Territory the story was much different (Holt, 2002). Many of the southern states were slave states with no intention of abolishing
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