Brethren by Nature - 9780801434150

Brethren by NatureNew England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery\nAuthor(s): Margaret Ellen Newell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801434150, 978-0801434150\nSynopsis\nNewell has done an excellent job of combing through court records correspondence and other materials to reconstruct details large and small and to uncover the stories of enslaved people and their enslavers... [A] testament to her careful scholarship and indeed a central part of the story of Indian slavery in New England. Daniel K. Richter ?New England Quarterly\n\n InBrethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians.\n\n Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists desire for slaves shaped the major New England Indian wars, including the Pequot War of 1637, King.