[maryz]

It's a given that there was slavery in New England,

I thought it was more bond slavery than chattel slavery. I could certainly be wrong (I think I'm remembering from 5th grade!).

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No, there was indenured servitude many years the Revolutionary War. Slavery existed until about 1800. Tituba, the Black woman who initiated the Salem witch trials was a Slave, "purchased in Barbados". Mumbet had to sue to obtain her freedom.