Notes on Slavery in Early New England

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Introduction

The purpose of this page is to collect resources and information on slavery and indenture servitude in early New England to inform guidance on how to include this information on profiles. This is a work in progress...as of yet we have not even defined "early" but we're starting with a primary interest in 17th-century records, maybe extending to the 1720's.

Miscellaneous Resources

The following have not been reviewed for reliability, but just as an initial reading list:

• "Researching Slavery and Black Life in Early New England: An Introduction, Atlantic Black Box.
• "New England's Hidden Histories.
• https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/new-england-colonies-use-slaves/3rd-grade/
• "The Education of Indentured Servants in Colonial

America " https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ847361.pdf

• Puritan Conscience and New England Slavery https://www.jstor.org/stable/364886
• https://library.providence.edu/encompass/rhode-island-slavery-and-the-slave-trade/rhode-island-slavery-and-the-slave-trade/
• New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, by Wendy Warren (Liveright/W.W. Norton) https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/wendy-warren (a groundbreaking study that alters our view of history by showing how deeply embedded slavery became in 17th-century northern colonies.)
• “Why shall wee have peace to bee made slaves”: Indian Surrenderers During and After King Philip’s War" Linford D. Fisher https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654607/
• Enslaved Africans in the Colony of Connecticut https://glc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/mod_1_digging_deeper.pdf
• The Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI) is an online searchable compilation of records that identify individual enslaved persons and enslavers in the states of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. https://nesri.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ https://nesri.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
• Slavery and the Slave Trade in Colonial New England - Joanne Pope Melish http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/popups/background.do?shortName=expSlavery
• Newell, Margaret. Brethren by Nature: New England Indians,

Colonists, and the Orig

• Slavery in Colonial Maine https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1469&context=mainehistoryjournal
• Colonial Enslavement in New England: A Literature Review https://www.academia.edu/10191899/Colonial_Enslavement_in_New_England_A_Literature_Review
• https://legacyofslavery.harvard.edu/report/slavery-in-new-england-and-at-harvard