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In New England Bound, Wendy Warren examines how 17th-century New England colonists engaged in the transatlantic slave trade by purchasing enslaved Africans and selling Indigenous people into slavery, showing how this enslavement was central to the region's development and wealth. Utilizing varied primary sources, Warren presents individual perspectives of African and Indigenous people entangled in the colonial society. The book contains descriptions of enslavement, violence and sexual violence, suicide, and racial slurs.