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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 219967" data-attributes="member: 1061">Some European nations (Spain in particular) DID enslave Indians who were captured. Some Indian tribes also practiced slavery themselves, or captured slaves to be sold to European traders. None of this was on a very wide scale, though. Social classes is a very European ideal.Part of the reason was that even though the Indians were "savages", they were still largely perceived as nomadic warrior-types versus being potential slaves. The African tribal slaves arrived here on a boat. They too were nomadic warrior-types, but the Europeans who lived here never saw them that way. They were just goods shipped from overseas like coffee, tea, or beans, just like any other commodity. But the Indians were well known to be a fiercely proud people, and some tribes were downright dangerous.</blockquote>