6 An exception was the Narragansett or “South Country” of Rhode Island and southeastern Connecticut, where the climate was similar to southern New Jersey or northern Maryland. This subject will be discussed in volume II; for attempts to introduce slavery to Massachusetts see Lorenzo Johnston Greene, The Negro in Colonial New England (New York, 1924).

7 These places are identified in Bernard and Lotte Bailyn, Massachusetts Shipping, 1697-1714 (Cambridge, 1959).