Slaves and Englishmen - Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Informationen zum Autor Michael Guasco is Associate Professor of History at Davidson College. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Those Negroes"? Transplanting Slavery in Anglo-America Chapter 6. Slavery before "Slavery" in Pre-Plantation America Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Michael Guasco
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2014
• EAN: 9780812245783
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4578-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: The Early Modern Americas
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous