Of the prisoners some were divided between Uncas and the Narragansetts, while the rest were kept by the English, or sold into bondage in the West Indies.[489] In the division of this human spoil, the clergy took its part. “Sir,” wrote the Reverend Mr. Peter to Governor Winthrop, “Mr. Endecot and myself salute you in the Lord Jesus. Wee have heard of a dividence of women and children in the bay and would bee glad of a share viz: a young woman or girle and a boy if you thinke good. I wrote to you for some boyes for Bermudas, which I thinke is considerable.”[490] Fifteen boys and two women were sent thither as slaves, but whether for the profit of the Reverend Peter, Winthrop does not say. Roger Williams pleaded over and over again, but in vain, with the Massachusetts authorities for a more lenient course. “Since the Most High delights in mercy, and great revenge hath bene allready taken,” he advised incorporating the survivors among the friendly Indians; but though, only a short time before, the Massachusetts authorities had been pleading with Williams to save themselves, they now turned a deaf ear to his intercession for the natives.[491] The Narragansetts and Mohegans were both anxious to adopt the few survivors of their powerful enemies, according to Indian custom, so that Williams's suggestions were as practicable as they were merciful. Two hundred were finally so allotted by Connecticut, when the last remnants of the Pequots submitted and the River plantations entered into a treaty with Uncas and Miantanomo.[492] From the end of the Pequot war, all the New England colonies adopted not only Indian but negro slavery, and it was wholly due to economic, and not ethical, causes that the institution did not take root. In the one small locality in all New England where it proved profitable, it did so root itself, and the importing of slaves for use in the other colonies long constituted an important part of Puritan trade.[493] Footnote 489: _Ibid._, vol. I, p. 279. Footnote 490: _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, Series IV, vol. VI, p. 95. Footnote 491: _Ibid._, p. 225. Other quotations from Williams and others are conveniently gathered in G. H. Moore, _Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts_ (New York, 1866), pp. 1-10. Footnote 492: Text in E. R. Potter, “Early History of Narragansett”; _Rhode Island Historical Society Collections_, vol. III, pp. 177 _f._ Footnote 493: E. Channing, _The Narragansett Planters_ (J. H. U. S., 1886), p. 10; W. E. B. DuBois, _The Suppression of the African Slave Trade_ (Harvard Univ. Press, 1916), pp. 27 _ff._