[461] Drake’s Note in Hubbard, _op. cit._, ii, p. 94. These Indians did not sell well abroad, for doubtless former experience had proved their race to be unsatisfactory as slaves. In one instance, when no immediate market could be found, a number of them were left in the slave market of Algiers from which, by the efforts of John Eliot, they were enabled to return to America in 1683. _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_, series 1, ii, p. 183. Of this incident Cotton Mather said: “Moreover, ’tis a prophecy in Deut. 28: 68, ‘The Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee. Thou shalt see it no more again; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.’ These did our Eliot imagine were sent to be sold in the coasts lying not very far from the coasts of Egypt, on the Mediterranean Sea, and scarce any chapman would offer to take them off.” _Magnalia_, bk. iii, pt. 3. [462] Baylies, _op. cit._, ii, pt. iii, p. 190. [463] For a discussion of the treatment of Philip’s wife and son, see _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_, series 4, viii, p. 689. For the opinions of the two eminent divines to whom the matter of their disposal was referred before colonial action was taken, see Baylies, _op. cit._, ii, pt. iii, p. 190. [464] _Plymouth Colony Records_, vi, p. 15. _The Boston Book of Possessions_, p. 145 (quoted in Corey, _The History of Malden_, p. 48), contains a proclamation issued by Governor Leverett, September 23, 1675, relating to the sale of seven male Indians to two colonists who were to transport and sell them anywhere they wished. [465] Shurtleff, _Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England_, v, p. 136. [466] Gookin, _History of the Christian Indians_, in _American Antiquarian Society Proceedings_, 1836, ii, p. 449. [467] _Plymouth Colony Records_, v, p. 244. [468] Shurtleff, _op. cit._, v, p. 136; _Plymouth Colony Records_, v, pp. 207, 223; vi, p. 15. The Plymouth general court required that the magistrates who disposed of such Indian children according to the order of the court, should sign “indentures for such as are so disposed, to prevent further differences.” _Plymouth Colony Records_, vi, p. 15. [469] In 1676, as well as several years before and after, the government of Rhode Island was in the hands of the Quakers. Staples, _Annals of Providence_, p. 169. No organized effort against the system of slavery in general was made in Rhode Island until that of the Quakers, 1717. Weeden, _Early Rhode Island_, p. 188.