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English fishermen capture Native people off the Atlantic Coast to bring to slave markets.
Date: 1501
Slavery
Colonization
Indigenous
Europe
Abenaki and Passamaquoddy people are kidnapped from their land by British fishermen. This results in the Abenaki decision to only trade with the British off-shore in boats.
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