English traders use fiscal debt as a means of enslavement. They sell goods on credit in the fall, expecting full payment after the spring hunting season. If the debt isn't paid, traders seize the man’s wife and/or children and sell them into slavery in the West Indies. The wars in the Carolinas are a form of Tuscarora resistance to this debt economy. They include massacres of the Tuscarora, as the English fight to gain and hold control.