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Author:

Guasco, Michael, 1968-

Title:

Slaves and Englishmen : human bondage in the early modern Atlantic world / Michael Guasco.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2014

Description:

315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Slavery--United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Slavery--Great Britain--History.
Atlantic Ocean Region--History--17th century.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Great Britain--History--America--History--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the problem of slavery in pre-plantation America -- The nature of a slave: human bondage in early modern England -- Slaves the world over: early English encounters with slavery -- Imaginary allies: Englishmen and Africans in Spain's Atlantic world -- Englishmen enslaved: the specter of slavery in the Mediterranean and beyond -- "As cheap as those Negroes"?: transplanting slavery in Anglo-America -- Slavery before "slavery" in pre-plantation America.

Series:

Early modern Americas

ISBN:

0812245784 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812245783 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)854906201

LCCN:

2013024699

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)