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In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American background: British colonists in New Great britain enslaved a large number of Indians. Massachusetts became the first British colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire to have slaves molded the major New Great britain Indian wars, like the Pequot Warfare of 1637, King Philip's Warfare of 1675-76, and the northeastern Wabanaki conflicts of 1676-1749. Newell also explains how slavery associated the destiny of Africans and Indians. The trade in Indian captives linked New Great britain to Caribbean and Atlantic slave economies. Indians labored on glucose plantations in Jamaica, tended areas in the Azores, and rowed British naval galleys in Tangier. Indian slaves outnumbered Africans within New Great britain before 1700, however the balance soon shifted. Fearful of the growing African inhabitants, local governments stripped Indian and African servants and slaves of rights and personal freedoms.
