Slaves and Englishmen : human bondage in the early modern Atlantic world /

Slaves and Englishmen : human bondage in the early modern Atlantic world /

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Michael Guasco traces the broad spectrum of ways slavery shaped the way Englishmen and Anglo-Americans thought about and interacted with the world even before the rise of plantation-based economies.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guasco, Michael, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Early modern Americas.
Subjects:
1600-1775
Slavery > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Slavery > United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Slavery > Great Britain > History.
British colonies.
Slavery.
Slavery > Colonial period.
Engländer.
Sklaverei.
Kolonie.
Slavery / Atlantic Ocean Region / History.
Slavery / Great Britain / History.
Slavery / United States / History / Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 17th century.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > 17th century.
America.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Great Britain.
United States.
Afrika.
Amerika.
Atlantischer Raum.
Grossbritannien.
Mittelmeer.
England.
Atlantic Ocean Region / History / 17th century.
Great Britain / Colonies / America / History / 17th century.
United States / History / Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the problem of slavery in pre-plantation America
  • The nature of a slave: human bondage in early modern England
  • Slaves the world over: early English encounters with slavery
  • Imaginary allies: Englishmen and Africans in Spain's Atlantic world
  • Englishmen enslaved: the specter of slavery in the Mediterranean and beyond
  • "As cheap as those Negroes"?: transplanting slavery in Anglo-America
  • Slavery before "slavery" in pre-plantation America.