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16%OFFWendy Warren - New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America - 9780871406729 - V9780871406729
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

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Description for New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America Hardcover. The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .

In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England. While most histories of slavery in early America confine themselves to the Southern colonies and the Caribbean, New England Bound forcefully widens the historical aperture to include the entirety of English North America, integrating the famed "city on a hill" of seventeenth-century Puritan New England into the cruel Atlantic system from its very beginnings.

Using original research culled from dozens of archives, Warren conclusively links the growth of ... Read more

And even while New England Bound explains the way in which the Atlantic slave trade drove the colonization of New England, it also brings to light, in many cases for the first time ever, the lives of the thousands of reluctant Indian and African slaves who found themselves forced into the project of building that city on a hill. We encounter enslaved Africans working side jobs as con artists, enslaved Indians who protested their banishment to sugar islands, enslaved Africans who set fire to their owners’ homes and goods, and enslaved Africans who saved their owners’ lives. In Warren’s meticulous, compelling, and hard-won recovery of such forgotten lives, the true variety of chattel slavery in the Americas comes to light, and New England Bound becomes the new standard for understanding colonial America.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Liveright
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780871406729
SKU
V9780871406729
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Wendy Warren
Wendy Warren received her PhD in history from Yale University and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. She lives in New Jersey.

Reviews for New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
"In New England Bound, Wendy Warren builds a powerful case for the centrality of slavery to the economy of the Puritan colonies in the North."
Joyce Appleby, author of The Relentless Revolution

Goodreads reviews for New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America


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