According to the article:
Anyone who left MA that Winthrop did not personally want to see removed from his colony was seen as a traitor.
Roger Williams was one of those Winthrop wanted gone. He was one of the founders of Rhode Island and a serious threat to Winthrop. He openly called for toleration of religious beliefs and was embraced by enough Massachusetts colonists to be seen as a threat to Winthrop’s power.
“Until 1641, no colony turned state had legalized slavery.”
Am I the only one seeing a problem with the facts right there?
A poorly written rambling article which relies on an obscure provision which seemed to be limiting slavery to war captives. The article tries to disprove the 1619 project by claiming Massachusetts legalized slavery before Virginia.
I’m not aware that Massachusetts has any significant history of legalized slavery and the article fails to give any historical overview.
This is a stupid article.
The real point about Massachusetts and slavery is that the state outlawed slavery. America never had slavery in the North.
The only "stubborn myth" here would appear to be the claim that this is a stubborn myth. Every source you can find on this says it is Massachusetts and 1641 - as far as earliest codification.
The first adjudication in court did occur in Virginia - strangely enough, the first officially declared legal slave owner was himself black.
The Importation and Sale of Enslaved People
No mention of MA off-loading troublesome Pequots, though.
Virginia did introduce slavery first, and the courts there upheld it. Massachusetts did write slavery into its laws, but the courts there later abolished it. One might often wish it to be otherwise, but courts do make law. In any event, slavery was abolished a long time ago and no living American is responsible for it, so the writer can FOAD painfully.
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So,the steal happened long before biden?
more correctly....no BRITISH COLONY.
They were British at the time. America didn’t become independent until the surrender of King George III.
Yale and Brown Universities were named after their great, initial benefactors, who both made their fortunes in the slave trade.
Not a single peep from the race hustlers.
This makes sense to me but a footnote would have been appreciated. Was the requirement an act of Parliament or was it in the colonial charters?
Nothin new duuuhhhh....It would appear that some Native American tribes kept prisoners of war and other different tribal members as slaves for thousands of years before the Europeans even set foot in Massachusetts? During the St. Anne`s War & French and Indian War, Native American tribes would kidnap women and children from Massachusetts towns and keep them as slaves. Even some tribes bought and sold African-Americans as slaves after 1620? French kept records now in St. Sulpice, Canada, of buying off/rescuing white slaves from Massachusetts, etc. from Iroquois and Algonkoin captivity.
Interesting.
Interesting.