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

Michael Guasco is Professor of History at Davidson College.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Michael Guasco is Professor of History at Davidson College.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael Guasco
• Editore: University of pennsylvania pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780812223941
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2394-1
• Pagine: 328
• Serie: The Early Modern Americas; The Early Modern Americas
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni