Native Americans More Profitable Slaves Poem by Terence George Craddock

once trade of enslaved ensnared Indians
in North America covered an area vast
from as far west as Spanish New Mexico
northward to fresh water rich Great Lakes

southward to the Isthmus of Panama
linking continents North South America
for 300 years Spanish Dutch French English
sort to enslave Indians with passion feverish

operating out of Charles Town
Carolina traders profitable slave
traded with sea distant Caribbean
Spanish Hispaniola Northern colonies

Native American more profitable slaves
African slaves freight shipped purchased
cost expensive native slaves close captured
were immediately sold taken to plantations