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This 5 page paper discuses the event that acted as a catalyst to end slavery in this state. As one writer commented, because the North was free during the Civil War era, people have forgotten that slavery was practiced in the North early in American history. It was common European practice to enslave those one conquered but for the most part, Indians conquered were sent to the West Indies and traded for other slaves, who were returned to America. This essay provides a background and then, focuses on the Quock Walker case, credited with ending slavery in Massachusetts. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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2000). The African slave trade began in 1637 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when defeated Indians from the Pequot War in Connecticut were transported to the West Indies (Knight, 2000).
The return cargo from these trips included tobacco, cotton and Negroes that would be bound into slavery (Knight, 2000). At that time in history, enslaving the conquered was a common
practice in Europe; Europeans typically enslaved those they had defeated in war (Knight, 2000). Slavery was also used as a punishment for criminals at the time (Knight, 2000). Indians were
often shipped to the West Indies because they were perceived to be hard to control (Knight, 2000). McManus, writing on Black Bondage in the North, noted that "Such exchanges (shipping
the Indians to the West Indies where they were traded for Negroes) became routine during subsequent Indian wars, for the danger of keeping revengeful warriors in the colony far outweighed
the value of their labor" (Harper, 2002). This practice became the official policy of the New England Confederation in 1644 (Harper, 2002). In 1641, the Body of Liberties was adopted
by the New England Confederation; it addressed slavery in this way: "There shall never be any bond slaverie, villinage or captivitie amongst us unles it be lawfull captives taken in
just warres, and such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us. And these shall have all the liberties and Christian usages which the law of God established
in Israel concerning such persons doeth morally require. This exempts none from servitude who shall be judged thereto by authoritie" (Knight, 2000). The language is such that citizens debated as
to whether the article forbade or permitted slavery (Knight, 2000). The General Court of the colony in subsequent decisions condemned the practice of man stealing and in 1645 and 1646,
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