Slaves and Englishmen : : Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World / / Michael Guasco.
Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery was entrenched in law and practice, English men and women were well aware of the various forms of human bondage practiced in other nations and, in less sys...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Early Modern Americas
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Problem of Slavery in Pre- Plantation America
- Chapter 1. The Nature of a Slave: Human Bondage in Early Modern England
- Chapter 2. Slaves the World Over: Early English Encounters with Slavery
- Chapter 3. Imaginary Allies: Englishmen and Africans in Spain's Atlantic World
- Chapter 4. Englishmen Enslaved: The Specter of Slavery in the Mediterranean and Beyond
- Chapter 5. "As Cheap as Th ose Negroes"?: Transplanting Slavery in Anglo- America
- Chapter 6. Slavery before "Slavery" in Pre- Plantation America
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments