The settlers' demand for slaves affected communities as far west as present-day Illinois and the Mississippi River and as far south as the Gulf Coast.
European settlers exported tens of thousands of enslaved Native Americans outside the region to New England and the Caribbean.
The Southeastern plantations that European settlers established greatly relied on the exploitation of enslaved human beings, with slaves comprising a key component of their workforce.
This debt and frustration that began the Yamasee War of 1715, which would ultimately be one of the factors that lead to the demise of the trade system in the Carolinas.
[6] British colonists in the colonies of Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia imported enslaved indigenous peoples as workers during the 17th and early 18th centuries.
[8] European colonists offered weapons, alcohol, and manufactured goods in exchange for animal skins and Indian slaves.
[10] This imbalance encouraged unions between the two racial groups with many former slaves mentioning a notable Native American relative one or two generations before them.
The Westos were given goods from Europe in exchange for beaver and other animal pelt and capturing natives to be sold into slavery.
[8] The Goose Creek Men, a small number of planters who moved from Barbados to the Carolina colony, benefited from this trade and offered large quantities of weapons to the Westo, Savannah, Yamasee, and Siouan-speaking "Settlement Indians" to facilitate it.
In the first decade of the 18th century, French traders living with the Kaskaskia Illinois, and Miami peoples worked incited warfare to procure slaves for the Carolina market, as well as for sale in New France.
[1] However, Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) interrupted the building campaigns against trading and allowed for increased sales of slaves in Charleston.
The raids were so frequent that there were barely any natives left to capture, and so the Yamasee and Creek began bringing fewer slaves to the Carolina colonies to continue the trade.