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4. How did the leader of the Chesapeake colonies, John Smith, tell his people to treat the

Native Americans?

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Unfortunately for the Native Americans, Smith believed that the English should treat them as the Spanish had: to compel them to "drudgery, work, and slavery," so English colonists could live "like Soldiers upon the fruit of their labor."

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