A Privateer is any individual granted license by their government to attack shipping belonging to an enemy government usually during a war. Privateers are like private contractors They receive a Letter of Marque from their nations Admiralty which grants them permission to raid enemy ships and keep a percentage of the spoils so …show more content…
If an indian was captured for slavery they was able to escape cause they knew the land around them well enough. Most of the time the Indians would come back and try to free some of the african american slaves. Most everyone was enslaved by them not just african americans and Indians. They enslaved everyone who opposed them or anyone that they captured. The slaves worked extreme hours with very little or no pay. The European Slave Trade was such a lucrative market that it touched nearly all aspects of the maritime economy and its merchant participants. Indeed the European Slave Trade could be termed the world’s first and most extensive Equal Opportunity Employer with all religious groups actively participating in the