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The history of enslavement reached it most gruesome

consequences when more than six million Jews from
across Europe were incinerated in the Jewish Holocaust

during the period from 1933 to 1945.

Early History of Slavery in America – While instances of

slavery can be traced back to approximately 1525, it is

generally accepted that slave trade; hence slavery
officially began on a large scale after the early
settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth. Most generally

mark this time as 1619 when slavery began to grow
beyond control. That was a time when sources of labor

became increasingly vital to the thriving and wealthy
agricultural industry of that era. From that point, it was

so formidably entrenched that it took nearly 250 years
of intense resistance by many to formally abolish it.

What has often been overlooked in the true annals of
American history is the intense opposition to slavery

that grew out of the deep Christian faith and values of
the Puritan settlers.

Massachusetts was the first colony and therefore it was
among the first to allow slave trade (1641). However, it

was also the first state that effectively outlawed slavery.
It accomplished this through the normal practice of case

law that sought to free slaves; such cases were
adjudicated from 1701-1783. In the landmark case of

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