Description Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area\'s indigenous peoples as slaves.
In this concise yet comprehensive hist.
This story of Slavery in New England has been little told.
By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of the population, but Slavery had become instrumental to the region\'s economy and had shaped its cultural traditions.
Description Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area\'s indigenous peoples as slaves