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The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies (Critical Issue) Book

Though there was no tradition of slavery in England, it was the norm throughout British colonies in North America and the Caribbean by the end of the 17th century. Historian Betty Wood examines the reasons for its spread in this scholarly, but readable, book. She begins by noting that the British believed slavery was appropriate for non-Christian foreigners, and that Africans belonged to that category. Once the need for cheap labor in the Americas became apparent, planters turned to Africa, and slavery, which had once seemed unthinkable, spread throughout the colonies in an unholy alliance of these two factors--racism and economics. Read More

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  • Product Description

    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."

  • 0809016087
  • 9780809016082
  • Betty Wood
  • 1 April 1998
  • Hill & Wang
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 144
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