| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
345 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the cause of her grief -- Part I. A world that does wrong -- The unthinking decision -- The key of the Indies -- Unplanting and replanting -- Part II. Lord, make it likely that of New England -- Visible slaves -- Intimate slavery -- Law of the land -- Part III. Backing into modernity -- The selling of Adam -- Epilogue: a thousand such fellows. |
| Summary |
In the tradition of Edmund S. Morgan, whose American Slavery, American Freedom revolutionized colonial history, a new generation of historians is fundamentally rewriting America’s beginnings. Nowhere is this more evident than in Wendy Warren’s explosive New England Bound, which reclaims the lives of so many long-forgotten enslaved Africans and Native Americans in the seventeenth century. Based on new evidence, Warren links the growth of the northern colonies to the Atlantic slave trade, demonstrating how New England’s economy derived its vitality from the profusion of slave-trading ships coursing through its ports. Warren documents how Indians were systematically sold into slavery in the West Indies and reveals how colonial families like the Winthrops were motivated not only by religious freedom but also by their slave-trading investments. New England Bound punctures the myth of a shining “City on a Hill,” forcefully demonstrating that the history of American slavery can no longer confine itself to the nineteenth-century South. |
| Subject(S) |
Slavery -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
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Slave trade -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
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Enslaved Indians -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
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New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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New England -- Race relations -- History -- 17th century.
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| Added Title |
Slavery and colonization in early America |
| ISBN |
9780871406729 (hardcover) |
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0871406721 (hardcover) |
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