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

Michael Guasco is Professor of History at Davidson College.

List of 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 Those Negroes"? Transplanting Slavery in Anglo-America

Chapter 6. Slavery before "Slavery" in Pre-Plantation America

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Michael Guasco is Professor of History at Davidson College.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Guasco
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780812223941
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2394-1
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: The Early Modern Americas; The Early Modern Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous