In one article by Imani Kazini, entitled, Black Springfield: A Historical Study 1977 describes legal laws that sanctioned slavery as acceptable practice. Such laws the Puritans believed that they were employed covenants throughout their society including the act of marriage, church construction, to the development of towns, and establishing further levels of government jurisdiction. Such laws, gave acceptance to punishment for infractions especially around behavior. Such laws for instant prohibited the sales of alcohol to Blacks or another example was in 1705 made it illegal for sexual encounters between white and black people. In the case of Massachusetts such violations of the Bodies of Liberty occurred in colonies when enslaved Roco who was owned by John Pynchon received 15 lashes for
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Such laws were to curb the mixed races of Black enslaved persons and freed or indentures servants given their freedom after a period of time serving their time within the colonies. (Kazini 1977)
As the frontier began to spread out throughout the area many towns and settlements became regulated and controlled by the church and the ministers. In the discussion of slavery and the production of slave labor can be traced right back to the very foundations of the church establishments. In article entitled, Higher Education and Slavery in Western Massachusetts by Robert H. Romer in 2004-5 describes the inner workings of town establishments and the direct correlation of slaves in the Valley. In his article he describes how Many, if not most, of the “important people” of the Connecticut Valley many of them graduates of Yale and Harvard, owned African slaves. In his research he describes the town of Deerfield, “by the mid-1700s in the town of Deerfield, on the main street had a total population of about 300, of whom 21 were enslaved African Americans. The slaves, who belonged to 12 different families, made up 7 percent of the total population.” Another account recalls,
Such laws were to curb the mixed races of Black enslaved persons and freed or indentures servants given their freedom after a period of time serving their time within the colonies. (Kazini 1977)
As the frontier began to spread out throughout the area many towns and settlements became regulated and controlled by the church and the ministers. In the discussion of slavery and the production of slave labor can be traced right back to the very foundations of the church establishments. In article entitled, Higher Education and Slavery in Western Massachusetts by Robert H. Romer in 2004-5 describes the inner workings of town establishments and the direct correlation of slaves in the Valley. In his article he describes how Many, if not most, of the “important people” of the Connecticut Valley many of them graduates of Yale and Harvard, owned African slaves. In his research he describes the town of Deerfield, “by the mid-1700s in the town of Deerfield, on the main street had a total population of about 300, of whom 21 were enslaved African Americans. The slaves, who belonged to 12 different families, made up 7 percent of the total population.” Another account recalls,