This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among Native American and Euroamerican communities …
The origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender are examined in this book. The author argues that gender was both a basic social …
A portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago traces the development of plantation slave society in the region, examines sugar production techniques, …
Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward …
On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and …
In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible …
Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots …
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship …
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade …
