Frontiers of servitude: Slavery in narratives of the early French Atlantic (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies MUP) 1526122243, 9781526122247

Frontiers of servitude: Slavery in narratives of the early French Atlantic 9781526122254

Based on little-examined printed and archival sources, this book explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thin

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Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic 9780812293067

Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds shows how

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Spectacular Suffering : Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic 9780813938431, 9780813938424

Spectacular Suffering focuses on commodification and discipline, two key dimensions of Atlantic slavery through which bl

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Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England 9780812298260

Although early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," slavery was a quinte

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Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence 0197646913, 9780197646915

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Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence 0197646913, 9780197646915

Grounded in new archival research documenting a significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medic

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Escaping Servitude : A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia 9780739192757, 9780739192740

Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia is an edited collection of

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Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston 9781479869985

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Reveals the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston Instead

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Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius 9780822386919

A historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean.

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Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy: Aristocratic Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century France 9781501745737

Ellis persuasively rethinks both images of Boulainvilliers, finding him a controversialist who interpreted French histor

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