Page:Notes on the History of Slavery - Moore - 1866.djvu/10



E find the earliet records of the hitory of lavery in Maachuetts at the period of the Pequod War—a few years after the Puritan ettlement of the colony. Prior to that time an occaional offender againt the laws was punihed by being old into lavery or adjudged to ervitude; but the intitution firt appears clearly and ditinctly in the enlaving of Indians captured in war. We may hereafter add a ketch of the theories which were held to jutify the bondage of the heathen, but at preent limit ourelves to the collection of facts to illutrate our general ubject. And at the outet we deire to ay that in this hitory there is nothing to comfort pro-lavery men anywhere. The tains which lavery has left on the proud ecutcheon even of Maachuetts, are quite as ignificant of its hideous character as the