Note 132 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.
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The Creeks already in Bartram’s time (1789) had slaves. He tells us of a chief who kept 15 Negroes; they were slaves until they married Indian women, and then acquired the privileges of the tribe. Schoolcraft informs us that “if an Indian should murder a Negro, the law is satisfied with the value of the Negro being paid to the owner”132.