Statistics for occurrence #1 of “West Indies” in chapter 11 of Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2.:
...1637.
The slaves in this instance were, of course, Indians.
The chief source of African slaves, so far as their importation is concerned, was through trade with Barbadoes, a British island in the West Indies .
Slaves purchased in Africa were sold chiefly in the West Indies and the Southern colonies; the balance came North.
The mainspring of the traffic was rum; and Brooks in his History of Medford g...
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