Roger Williams and Slaves

Book Review: Linford D. Fisher, Sheila M. McIntyre, and Julia A. Fisher, Reading Roger Williams: Rogue Puritans, Indigenous Nations, and the Founding of America, A Documentary History 

The authors further include a document in their book that makes clear that Williams was organizing a group of Narragansett captives, after the end of King Phillip's War, to be sold outside of Providence, probably to be enslaved. This made Williams a man of his times, as Whites throughout North America at this time sought to sell Indian captives outside of their jurisdiction as slaves. The authors do concede that it is not known if the captives served as indentured servants or were enslaved for life, or whether they were kept in Rhode Island or transported to say, a Caribbean Island controlled by Great Britain. I suspect it was the latter.