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New England Bound - Slavery and Colonization in Early America (Hardcover)
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New England Bound - Slavery and Colonization in Early America (Hardcover)
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In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial
America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was
inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of
New England. While most histories of slavery in early America
confine themselves to the Southern colonies and the Caribbean, New
England Bound forcefully widens the historical aperture to include
the entirety of English North America, integrating the famed "city
on a hill" of seventeenth-century Puritan New England into the
cruel Atlantic system from its very beginnings. Using original
research culled from dozens of archives, Warren conclusively links
the growth of the northern colonies to the Atlantic slave trade,
showing how seventeenth-century New England's fledgling economy
derived its vitality from the profusion of ships that coursed
through its ports, passing through on their way to and from the
West Indian sugar colonies. What's more, leading New England
families like the Winthrops and Pynchons invested heavily in the
West Indies, owning both land and human property, the profits of
which eventually wended their way back north. That money, New
England Bound shows, was the tragic fuel for the colonial wars of
removal and replacement of New England Indians that characterized
the initial colonization of the region. Warren painstakingly
documents the little-known history of how Native Americans were
systematically sold as slaves to plantations in the Caribbean, even
in the first decades of English colonization. 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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