Connecticut

         Connecticut colonial citizens did not participate directly in the slave trade in the late 17th century but Massachusetts merchants were bringing in three or four black slaves a year from Barbados. Since the average price of a African slave in Connecticut was 22 pounds and the rate in Massachusetts was 10 to 20 pounds, this was often a trip that was made by Boston slave traders. During the early 1700s slave imports to Connecticut were thought too few to be worth the trouble of taxing. The governor of the colony reported only 110 African and European servants in Connecticut in 1709. In 1730, the colony had a black population of 700, out of a total population of 38,000.