The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies

ISBN-13: 9780809016082 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 144 str.

Betty Wood

Opis

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.The Origins of American Slavery is a short analysis that shows the complex rationale behind the English establishment of American slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new assessment of a pivotal time in the formation of what was to become the United States offers thought-provoking insights into the English influence on the development of the "peculiar institution."