Columbus chose to finance the conquest of the West Indies by selling Native American slaves.

And he characterized it as his Granheria or Grainery. In other words, it was the granary that was going to pay for the conquest, that is Native American bodies.

And Columbus himself sent at least 3,000 and possibly as many as 6,000 or more

Native American slaves to Europe.

This begins as early as 1493 on his return voyage he takes about a two dozen Native Americans

to Portugal and Spain.

The subsequent voyages, many more, are sent, men and women. Now he intends to sell them by the thousands, not only in

Spain, but he mentions the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verdi Islands off, you know, the West Coast of Africa,

as well as in Portugal and Spain and elsewhere.

Good evening and welcome to For the People. In 1920 historian Carter G. Woodson said, quote,

one of the longest unwritten chapters in the and Africans come in contact with each other.

How much intermarrying took place between the two groups?

How did white supremacy shape those relations?

That great Libertarian Thomas Jefferson said of the Native Americans, quote,

we would never stop pursuing them with war while one remained on the face of the earth,

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How close did Jefferson and other Europeans come to realizing this objective?

We'll explore these and other questions with Dr. Jack Forbes, author of Black Africans and Native Americans, color, race, and cast in the evolution

of red black peoples, 1400s to 1865. Dr Forbes is professor of anthropology and Native American studies at the

University of California at Davis. He is co-founder of DQ University, a Native American university located in Northern California.

Well, I think the main point is to fill in a gap that has developed because of the suppression of knowledge of the interaction of black people and Native American people.

In other words, it's to tell the story and to the fullest extent possible of the interrelations between these two ethnic groups

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