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New England Bound - Slavery and Colonization in Early America (Paperback)
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New England Bound - Slavery and Colonization in Early America (Paperback)
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List price R508
Loot Price R421
Discovery Miles 4 210
You Save R87 (17%)
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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a "powerfully
written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed),
New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America's
seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like
Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only
"mastered that scholarship" but has now rendered it in "an original
way, and deepened the story" (New York Times Book Review). While
earlier histories of slavery largely confine themselves to the
South, Warren's "panoptical exploration" (Christian Science
Monitor) links the growth of the northern colonies to the slave
trade and examines the complicity of New England's leading
families, demonstrating how the region's economy derived its
vitality from the slave trading ships coursing through its ports.
And even while New England Bound explains the way in which the
Atlantic slave trade drove the colonization of New England, it also
brings to light, in many cases for the first time ever, the lives
of the thousands of reluctant Indian and African slaves who found
themselves forced into the project of building that city on a hill.
We encounter enslaved Africans working side jobs as con artists,
enslaved Indians who protested their banishment to sugar islands,
enslaved Africans who set fire to their owners' homes and goods,
and enslaved Africans who saved their owners' lives. In Warren's
meticulous, compelling, and hard-won recovery of such forgotten
lives, the true variety of chattel slavery in the Americas comes to
light, and New England Bound becomes the new standard for
understanding colonial America.
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