after cornelius briggs' death the next year, she was sold to another situate settler for 11 pounds. at the very least, the example of margaret illustrates that african slavery extended across the colony from what is now eastern rhode island to barnstable on the cape. so within the history of plymouth colony, there is this mixture of liberty and slavery. with liberty being constantly contested, with some forms of slavery being contested, the enslavement of natives was more controversial. but other forms of slavery rarely being contested or even mentioned. daniel webster believed that from the mayflower arose wise and politic constitutions of government, full of the liberty which we ourselves bring and breathe. william apus, whom i mentioned earlier, saw the pilgrims not as the bringers of liberty but as the bringers of slavery. in reality, liberty and slavery developed in tandem not only in colonies such as virginia where we're used to it being a part of the story, but even within far tinier plymouth colony. the separatists among the pilgrims secured the christian liberty they had be