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From colonial arrival until 1880, between 2-5.5 million Native Americans will be enslaved.

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The slavery of Indigenous people is not widely recognized in conversations about enslavement. One of the strategies of European colonization is to invade tribal land, enslave tribal community members, and then ship them off to other colonies. Similarly, Indigenous people from the Caribbean and other southern colonized lands will be shipped to northern colonies.