You do realize that Indigenous slave-ownership continued after colonization? We are the descendants of people of African descent owned by Indigenous people from the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. Colonization didn’t “end” enslavement by Indigenous people.
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Colonization led to the enslavement of the people Indigenous to this land by European colonizers, enslavement of people of African descent owned by both European and Indigenous people, and mass rape, murder, and the spreading of never-seen-before diseases.
Colonization in North America was a violent process in which European colonizers—in order to extract resources from the land and from the Indigenous people on the land and the African people they brought to this land—raped, killed, and harmed Black and Indigenous people.
This didn’t stop some Indigenous Nations from continuing to enslave people of African descent. I’m not sure if you are trying to insinuate that colonization “civilized” Indigenous people, but you should know that white settlers specifically called the Five Slaveowning Tribes
“Civilized” in part because they participated in chattel slavery. Colonists did not see abstaining from slavery or rape as a sign of being “civilized.” You should read up on the history of colonization in this country.
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