Foul Means - The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740

Informationen zum Autor Anthony S. Parent, Jr., is associate professor of history at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. Klappentext Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Zusammenfassung A challenge to the belief that the introduction of racial slavery in America was the consequence of a scarce labour market. It contends that during the late-17th and early-18th centuries a small! powerful planter class! to further its own economic interests! brought racial slavery to Virginia.

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• Authors: Anthony S. Parent Jr., Anthony S Parent, Anthony S. Parent
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2003
• EAN: 9780807854860
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-5486-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Published for the Omohundro In; Published for the Omohundro In; Published by the Omohundro Ins; Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press; Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous