The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies Paperback - 1998
by Betty Wood
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The adoption of chattel slavery by the English in their New World colonies had no clear precedent in either English law or social and economic practice.
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Though the English did not begin their colonization of the New World with the intention of enslaving anyone, by the end of the seventeenth century chattel slavery existed in each of England's American colonies. Why? And why did the English enslave West Africans rather than native Americans or Europeans? Historians have usually stressed either racial ideology or determining economic and demographic factors, but Betty Wood suggests that a more complex rationale was at work. In this important new analysis, Wood begins by exploring the meanings of freedom and bondage in sixteenth-century English thought and the ideas that men and women of Tudor England had about Africans and native Americans. She studies their prejudices against non-Christians, their responses to models of slavery in the Spanish and French colonies, and their assessment of their own labor shortages, and in the light of these various factors interprets the decision of the English to resort to slave labor in the colonies. She then follows the spread of slavery through the seventeenth century, from the Caribbean and the Carolinas to Virginia tobacco country and finally among the Puritans and Quakers farther north.
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- Title The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies
- Author Betty Wood
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-03-04
- ISBN 9780809016082 / 0809016087
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Colonial period,, Slavery - United States - History - 17th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96036025
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.2
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