Fictions of Consent : : Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England / / Urvashi Chakravarty.
In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons.Despite the persistent fiction that England was innocent of racialized slavery, Chakravarty argu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 25 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Transcription
- Introduction. “Too Pure an Air for Slaves to Breath In”: Slavery “Before” Slaves in Early Modern England
- Chapter 1. Marking Service: Livery, Liberty, and Legal Fictions in Early Modern England
- Chapter 2. “Leaue to Liue More at Libertie”: Race, Slavery, and Pedagogy in the Early Modern Schoolroom
- Chapter 3. “Am I Not Consanguineous?”: The Foreign Famulus and the Early Modern Household
- Chapter 4. Faithful Covenant Servants and Inbred Enemies: Indenture and Natality in Paradise Lost
- Chapter 5. “Of a Bondslaue I Made Thee My Free Man”: Servitude, Manumission, and the Macula Servitutis in The Tempest and Its Early American Afterlife
- Epilogue. Fictions of Consent in the Atlantic World
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments