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One of these diverse labors for slaves was working in factories. More specifically as blacksmiths,

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Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister.

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Distilling Rum

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Slaves repairing a road

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https://www.choices.edu/resources/documents/slavery_reading1.pdf

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Delaware used Indians as slaves. However, the diseases the Swedes had brought had killed many of the Indians. The decline in human resources forced them to start bringing blacks. The first black slave came from the West Indies in 1639. Black slaves, however, were not widely popular in Delaware until the Dutch took over.

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Pinkster was a religious holiday, for the Dutch. It was a day when they went to church and got a rest from work. It was brought into the New World in the 1620s and became an African American holiday somewhere between 1790 and 1810. On this day, the Africa community elected a Pinkster king, the enslaved Africans got a day free of work, and they got a chance to mock their masters and get out their anger towards the masters.

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Slaves in New England were different from that of the South. Slaves in New England weren't used for agricultural labor, but was diversified in many labors. This is because of the more complex economy of the New England.

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The Puritans believed that black people were cursed by God to serve whites. Cotton Mather told black slaves that they were "miserable children of Adam and Noah."

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The majority of slaves in New England worked as house servants.

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William D. Pierson wrote about the culture of Afro-Americans, and how they were influenced to assimilate to white culture. Especially after they were dehumanized and shipped to the colonies in "New England".