Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 9 of George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.:
...e latter a member of the church of Boston, first brought upon the colonies the guilt of participating in the traffic in African slaves.
They sailed for Guinea to trade for negroes; but throughout Massachusetts the cry of justice was raised against them as malefactors and murderers; Richard Saltonstall, a worthy assistant, felt himself moved by his duty as a magistrate, to denounce the act of stealing negro...
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† | Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) | 30,598 | 236 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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