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Northshore October 2025
  The era of colonizing New England, Warren recently told Terry Gross on Fresh Air, “was a time of warfare and brutality, and a lot of fear and trauma.” Most people don’t realize the degree to which New England participated in chattel bondage. Colonists sold Native Americans to overseers of the sugar plantations in the West Indies while they imported Africans from the West Indies. Warren has a doctorate in history from Yale and is a professor of history at Princeton. Her recent book, “New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America,” reveals that selling Africans and Native Americans in se
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