William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, rendered into Modern English and with an Introduction by Harold Paget (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006).
Wendy Warren, New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America (New York: Liveright, 2016) ("The work of colonization had proceeded thus: Indians and Africans had replaced each other in ways orchestrated by settler colonists, for the purposes of profit and expansion. The Atlantic slave trade was a process, consisting of a series of moments in which people of diverse nations and cultures (African elites, European merchants, Indian adversaries) all agreed, at various times in different places, to capture and commodify other people. If enough had said no, the system might have faltered. But people predictably, tragically, said yes, in Europe, in Africa, in the West Indies, and in New England, and their individual moments of agreement helped facilitate, in the seventeenth century, a global trade. The eventual decision made by other people to say no, more than a century and half later, would create a continental rupture." Id. at 113. Also see Christopher L. Brown, "Puritan Guilt," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 7/3/2016.).
