Slave Trade is first mentioned in Boston.

In his journal on this date, John Winthrop notes the arrival of the Desire at Long Wharf. The ship had left Boston a year earlier, carrying Pequot Native Americans to be enslaved on Providence Island in the Caribbean, and now returns carrying the first enslaved people to Boston directly from Africa. Boston is initially the center of the slave trade in New England, until is surpassed by Rhode Island in approximately 1720.*