How was Massachusetts involved in the Slave Trade?

This video looks at some of the ways Massachusetts was involved with the slave trade. ⏰TIME STAMPS⏰ 0:43 Slavery Legal Code in Massachusetts 1:41 How many people were enslaved here? 3:06 Economy of Massachusetts 4:48 Massachusetts role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade 8:42 Massachusetts role in Intra-American Slave Trade ================================== Support my channel through Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/blackgems ================================== 📗 SOURCES📗 Digital History. “Enslavement-Digital History ID 445” http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp... (accessed July, 13, 2020) Elder, Rosalyn Delores. African American Heritage in Massachusetts: Exploring the Legacy. Timeline, page 4. African American Heritage Massachusetts, 2016. Hardesty, Jared Ross. Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England. Chapter 2- Trafficked People. University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. Peter Pellizzari. Forthcoming. “Supplying Slavery: Jamaica, North America, and British Intra-Imperial Trade, 1752-1769.” Slavery & Abolition. Publisher's Version Statistics on Slavery https://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/sta... (accessed July, 13, 2020) The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts : Reprinted From the Edition of 1660, with the Supplements to 1672 : Containing also, the Body of Liberties of 1641 https://archive.org/details/coloniall... (accessed July, 13, 2020) Zallen, Jeremy. “American Lucifers: Makers and Masters of the Means of light, 1750-1900” (PhD diss, Harvard University, 2014). 38-44. Photo Credit: “A ca. 1936 WPA Mural depicting the “Pequot Swamp Fight” of July 1637” http://pequotwar.org/wp-content/uploa... (accessed July, 13, 2020) "Diagram of the Decks of a Slave Ship, 1814 ", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaver... (accessed July, 13, 2020) “First Slaves Arrive in Massachusetts” https://www.massmoments.org/moment-de... (accessed July, 13, 2020) "Interior of a Boiling House, French West Indies, 1762", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora. http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaver... (accessed July, 13, 2020) “Map depicting major slave trading regions of Africa African continent.” https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... . The image has been adapted with country names. (accessed July, 13, 2020) "Plantation Scene and Slave Houses, Barbados, 1807-08", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora. http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaver... (accessed July, 13, 2020)