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Excerpt from Social and Industrial Condition of the Negro in Massachusetts
The first mention Of negroes brought to America is found in the instructions given by the Spanish Court to Ovando, in the year 1501, by which negro slaves born in the power of Christians were allowed to be sent to the Indies.1 In 1619, twenty African slaves the first in America, were landed and sold in Jamestown, Virginia, from a Dutch man-of-war. This was the beginning of negro slaveholding throughout the Southern Colonies.2 In 1637, Hugh Peter Of Salem wrote to John Win throp that he had heard of women and children being distributed among the people Of Boston for Servants and stated that he and Mr. Endecott would be glad to share in the division and re ceive a young woman or girl and a boy. This was the begin ning of the colonial slave trade, and the disposition of Captive Indians was in accordance with the custom and, evidently, the previous practice of the authorities. It is certain that during the Pequot War they took many prisoners, and according to Winthrop3 they were disposed Of among the persons about Boston, and those who ran away and were recaptured were branded on the shoulder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
