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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Unfreedom
    sub title: slavery and dependence in eighteenth-century Boston
  name:
    name part: Hardesty, Jared
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In Unfreedom, Jared Ross Hardesty examines the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston. Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part of a continuum of unfreedom. In this context, African slavery existed alongside many other forms of oppression, including Native American slavery, indentured servitude, apprenticeship and pauper apprenticeship. In this hierarchical and inherently unfree world, enslaved Bostonians were more concerned with their everyday treatment and honor than with emancipation, as they pushed for autonomy, protected their families and communities and demanded a place in society. Drawing on exhaustive research in colonial legal records, including wills, court documents and minutes of governmental bodies, as well as newspapers, church records, and other contemporaneous sources, Hardesty masterfully reconstructs an eighteenth-century Atlantic world of unfreedom that stretched from Europe to Africa to America. By reassessing the lives of enslaved Bostonians as part of a social order structured by ties of dependence, Hardesty not only demonstrates how African slaves were able to decode their new homeland and shape the terms of their enslavement, but also tells the story of how marginalized peoples engrained themselves in the very fabric of colonial American society.
  table of contents: Introduction: a world of unfreedom -- Origins -- Deference and dependence -- Social worlds -- Laboring lives -- Appropriating institutions -- Afterword: the fall of the house of unfreedom.
  note: Jared Ross Hardesty.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ma
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    geographic: Massachusetts
    geographic: Boston
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Slaves
    geographic: Massachusetts
    geographic: Boston
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Indentured servants
    geographic: Massachusetts
    geographic: Boston
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    geographic: Boston (Mass.)
    topic: History
    temporal: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  subject:
    geographic: Boston (Mass.)
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: United States
    topic: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Slavery
  classification: F73.4 .H37 2016
  classification: 306.3/620974461
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Early American places
  identifier: 9781479816149
  identifier: 1479816140
  identifier: 9781479801848
  identifier: 1479801844
  identifier: 2015043166
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151116
    record change date: 20190422105552.0
    record identifier: in00004054515