Race traffic : antislavery and the origins of white victimhood, 1619-1819 /
"Fantasies of white slavery and the narratives of victimhood they spawn form the foundation of racist ideology. They also obscure the lived experience of trafficked servants and sailors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Gunther Peck moves deftly between the Atlantic and Mediterranean...
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Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Race Traffic, Past and Present
- The Origins of Race Traffic
- Ransom Traffic and Antislavery in the Mediterranean
- Novel Ways of Seeing the Color of Race
- Atlantic Slave-Servant Conspiracies
- Nationalizing Emancipation in the Mediterranean
- War, Traffic, and Race across the British Empire
- Trafficking, Freedom, and Race in the Age of Revolution
- Antislavery Nationalism and Race
- Conclusion: The Radical Challenge to Race Traffic
- Appendix A. The Colonial State Papers
- Appendix B. Early English Books Online
- Appendix C. Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
- Appendix D. Daniel Horsemanden's Journal of the Proceedings.