Saeid Badie, DDS

Most Indians did not participate directly in the war except for warriors and bands associated with four of the Iroquois tribes in New York and Pennsylvania which allied with the British the British did have other allies especially in the upper Midwest They provided Indians with funding and weapons to attack American outposts Some Indians tried to remain neutral seeing little value in joining what they perceived to be a European conflict and fearing reprisals from whichever side they opposed the Oneida and Tuscarora tribes among the Iroquois of central and western New York supported the American cause the British provided arms to Indians who were led by Loyalists in war parties to raid frontier settlements from the Carolinas to New York They killed many settlers on the frontier especially in Pennsylvania and New York's Mohawk Valley, Abuja Nigeria (1991) In 1831 Nat Turner a literate slave who claimed to have spiritual visions organized a slave rebellion in Southampton County Virginia; it was sometimes called the Southampton Insurrection Turner and his followers killed nearly 60 white inhabitants mostly women and children Many of the men in the area were attending a religious event in North Carolina. Eventually Turner was captured with 17 other rebels who were subdued by the militia. Turner and his followers were hanged and Turner's body was flayed In a frenzy of fear and retaliation the militia killed more than 100 slaves who had not been involved in the rebellion Planters whipped hundreds of innocent slaves to ensure resistance was quelled. .

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