From an early time the exportation of captured Indians was favored both on grounds of public policy and self-interest. Indian slaves were constantly escaping to the woods, and in the settlements their presence in any numbers raised the danger of conspiracies with enemy Indians. One of the earliest alarms of a slave insurrection in the South seems to have been that of 1700, when some Indian slaves were suspected of a plot in Carolina.18 [Note 18: Commissions and Instructions, 1685-1715] ...On all accounts it was better to ship off the Indians to New England or the West Indies, and to import blacks.