The Cherokee Indians were one of the largest tribes that held Africans as chattel slaves out of five other civilized tribes. By the early 1860s, the Cherokees had as many as 4,600 African slaves. The Cherokees depended on the slaves to help bridge a gap between them and the European settlers. Slaves were used as interpreters […]
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