Yorke.” Then Nicolls turned to his other mission. Decades earlier, the Puritans had planted colonies in New England, with Boston as their base. Nicolls and his emissaries were to bring the ...

However, over the course of the century, a new race-based slavery system developed, and by the dawn of the new century, the majority of Africans and African Americans were slaves for life.

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In 1643, the New England Confederation assisted runaway ... Slavery was abolished within England, but it was still permissible within the colonies, as was the slave trade itself.