1st Edition
A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England explores the nature of the triangular trade and the extent of slavery in New England. It discusses the effects of the trade in slaves and of slavery itself for the new Americans of the time and helps students to understand how history, and the telling of history, affects us today.

Slavery in the United States is often thought of as a Southern problem. Indeed, many students, and even teachers, are unaware of the extent of slavery in the North, particularly in New England. Long thought of as the birthplace of abolitionism, New England has a more complex history of slavery and the trade in slaves than many realize.