Analysis Of New England Bound By Wendy Warren

Wendy Warren, a historian who focuses on Colonial time, goes into depth about how the slave trade erupted in New England in her book New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. She explains how African Americans were brought to America and how they were treated once they arrived. One recurring theme that circled around the Africans was economics. The slave trade market took off when companies wanted to invest in the Africans and the New World. Stock companies would be competitive towards who had the rights to certain slave groups as if it was a gigantic game of Monopoly. One trader in 1687 exclaimed, “It will sound best that this Factory where more Slaves is shipt off then from any one place in the world should be maintained

The New Englanders saw this firsthand when they were assaulted and held captive at one of the African villages. In exchange, the New Englanders became very malicious and angry when they came with a cannon and fired it killing hundreds of the Africans on a tiny island called Guinye. This lead to them losing money on hundreds of slaves that could be doing the colonist’s work. As Warren states, “There was no need to fire on the town, and no coin in this killing, and yet there they were, the hundred dead.” This goes on to further the point on how greed and economics can lead to the vicious, bloodthirsty and brutal aspects of slavery in the times of the early Americas. There are many ups and downs when it comes to the slave trade business. There can be great fortune and prosperity and on the downside there can be death and

The author took up the John Rolfe’s description for the event with the utmost unconcern: “About the last of August came in a dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars.” This is considered as the beginning of African Americans slavery. However, the number of African Americans’ slavery didn’t increased immediately as the author mentioned that “Negroes continued to trickle in slowly for the next half century; one report in 1649 estimated that there were three hundred among Virginia’s population of fifteen thousand ― about 2 per cent.” If so, at that time, who did serve so as to fill a need for labor which tobacco plantation required? That was indentured servants. English colonists used white indentured servants as labor for producing a successful agricultural staple at first. Most of them didn’t have enough money to settle, so the expenses of transportation and maintenance were paid by colonizing agencies. In return, indentured servants agreed to work for the agencies as contract laborers, usually for four to seven years. Free at the end of this term, they would be given freedom dues, sometimes including a small tract of land. Although most of them fulfilled their obligations faithfully, some ran away from their employers. Nevertheless, many of them were eventually able to secure land and set up homesteads, either in the colonies in which they had originally settled or in