Prior to the awareness of the black slave abundance in Africa, the owners of the silver and gold mines in South America, Indians in the Caribbean were abducted to work the mines until they dropped dead. A group of South American Indians banded together, and fled to the islands. Their guerrilla war tactics frightened the slavers so bad that they steered clear of the islands the Caribs lived on. because of this, they lived 300 years beyond all other tribes.