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.
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