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How Did The Americans Affect The Law
The different status of the Indians had no effect on the law. During the seventeenth and eighteenth century, several rules were put into action to prevent slaves or servants from running away. For example, in Boston it was not allowed for slaves or servants to be out at night after nine without their owner, as was stated in the Boston news-Letter (“These are”). This led to the slaves not being able to walk around at night without being suspicious, making running away at night harder for both Afro American and Native slaves. Another rule in which the all slaves are the same is the New York law of 1737, in which is stated that how slaves cannot assemble with more than three people on Sunday or make any noise (“a Law”). Punishment for this is public whipping of fifteen lashes or six shillings payed by the owner. These two examples of rules show how the rules during the seventeenth and eighteenth century are the same for both kind of slaves, and thus the higher status of the Native Americans does not help Native slaves.
The Native slave had an advantage compared to the Afro American slave. The Native had a spot to
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This makes that the suppression of the white men over the Natives and Afro Americans is still not fixed. Showing that suppression of groups can leave a mark on the groups that were suppressed for a very long time. Even though slavery among Natives was already happening before the Europeans came to the America’s, the slavery based on race leads to suppression, in which the European thus had the attitude that they were better than the Natives. Besides, Europeans brought the Afro American to the America’s, which led to the suppression by the white men. As Europeans brought Africans to the America’s to do the hard work. Showing how the suppression of both Native And Afro American slaves had let to them to have a

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