The Responsibility Of Native American Slaves In The Flint River

By end of the day, they had reached just inside the southern border of the place that was later named Georgia. When they reached the Flint River, they built a barge in which they could make a crossing. They pulled it back and forth using a chain. It was made by joining together the chains they used to tie the Native American slaves in the western side of the river. At night, the river would be guarded as Elva stated, “The Indians, in attempting to escape in the dark, he would come swimming noiselessly to the shore, with a leaf of waterlily on the head that they might pass unobserved.” The ones who escaped were recaptured and held as slaves again. De Soto kept his slaves “In chains, with collars about the neck, to carry luggage and grind corn,