Thank you

Thank you, malaise.

we usually think of the South. But Boston was a major slave trading port in colonial times. So was New London, CT.

Something that I discovered during genealogy research is that colonists in New England captured Native Americans in wars with them over territory and shipped them to the Caribbean sugar plantations to trade them for "seasoned" enslaved Africans. Some colonists wrote in their journals that they longed for another skirmish with Indians in order to import more enslaved Africans to New England. Connecticut was a center for that type of slave trade.

The Boston slave trade was based on newly captured Africans shipped into the Boston port where they were auctioned off. Nearly every New England village, no matter how small, had enslaved people. Clergy and magistrates had them in their households. Prosperous farmers had enslaved people to do field work.

Initially they tried enslaving Native people, but they knew the land and could escape, or had relatives nearby to free them, so the colonists in New England switched to importing Africans who did not have a nearby African village, nation or culture to help them escape.

Shocking.

I'm so glad you took the time to share it with DU'ers.

I can't believe it has not been commonly known earlier, and still isn't commonly known now. It's easy to imagine it's every bit as shameful as a lot of Southern history.

It takes some time to grasp. It's cold, and diabolical. Wow.

Thank you, wnylib. Anyone who reads it will remember it.

about it in my research.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Connecticut#:~:text=Connecticut%20blocked%20the%20importation%20of,Abolition%20Act%22%20of%20that%20year.

https://www.npr.org/2016/06/21/482874478/forgotten-history-how-the-new-england-colonists-embraced-the-slave-trade