Unfreedom : slavery and dependence in eighteenth-century Boston /
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 slaver...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Early American places.
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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.