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Unfreedom - Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston (Paperback)
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Unfreedom - Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston (Paperback)
Series: Early American Places
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Reveals the lived
experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston Instead of
relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom,
Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part of a
continuum of unfreedom. In this context, African slavery existed
alongside many other forms of oppression, including Native American
slavery, indentured servitude, apprenticeship, and pauper
apprenticeship. In this hierarchical and inherently unfree world,
enslaved Bostonians were more concerned with their everyday
treatment and honor than with emancipation, as they pushed for
autonomy, protected their families and communities, and demanded a
place in society. Drawing on exhaustive research in colonial legal
records - including wills, court documents, and minutes of
governmental bodies - as well as newspapers, church records, and
other contemporaneous sources, Hardesty masterfully reconstructs an
eighteenth-century Atlantic world of unfreedom that stretched from
Europe to Africa to America. By reassessing the lives of enslaved
Bostonians as part of a social order structured by ties of
dependence, Hardesty not only demonstrates how African slaves were
able to decode their new homeland and shape the terms of their
enslavement, but also tells the story of how marginalized peoples
engrained themselves in the very fabric of colonial American
society.
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