How Do These Moments of Trauma Affect the History of European Colonies?

Samuel Seawal was involved heavily in the witchcraft crisis. He wrote what is considered to be one of the first anti-slavery tracks, which you had to read a portion of today. In some accounts, they're like, hey, look, we could have attacked back if the watchmen hadn't been spied by some people because they were going out to look for runaways. So you can see that the presence of slavery changed, right, what was possible in terms of defense.