Article abstract: The granting of formal status to slavery makes it an institution in the British colonies.
Summary of Event
From its outset, the Massachusetts Bay Colony endorsed the idea of unfree labor. One hundred eighty indentured servants arrived with the original colonists. Subsequent food shortages led to the surviving servants’ being set free in 1830. Unfree labor, however, continued on a private basis, and some white criminals were made slaves to court-appointed masters. Captives from the Pequot War of 1636-1637 were given over into slavery....
Source: Great Events from History: North American Series, ©1997 Salem Press, Inc.. All Rights Reserved.
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