Unfreedom : : Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston / / Jared Ross Hardesty.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016Reveals the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part of a continuum of unfreedom. In this context, African sl...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Early American Places ; 2
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A World of Unfreedom
  • 1 / Origins
  • 2 / Deference and Dependence
  • 3 / Social Worlds
  • 4 / Laboring Lives
  • 5 / Appropriating Institutions
  • Afterword: The Fall of the House of Unfreedom
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author