

New England Bound
Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Author: Wendy Warren
Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley
Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/06/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Social Science, Slavery
Synopsis
Using original research culled from dozens of archives, Warren conclusively links the growth of the northern colonies to the Atlantic slave trade, showing how seventeenth-century New England's fledgling economy derived its vitality from the profusion of ships that coursed through its ports, passing through on their way to and from the West Indian sugar colonies. What's more, leading New England families like the Winthrops and Pynchons invested heavily in the West Indies, owning both land and human property, the profits of which eventually wended their way back north. That money, New England Bound shows, was the tragic fuel for the colonial wars of removal and replacement of New England Indians that characterized the initial colonization of the region.