The intellectual origins of American slavery : English ideas in the early modern Atlantic world /
"John Samuel Harpham shows that, long before the emergence of racial ideologies, English merchants found justification for the Atlantic slave trade in Roman law. That tradition influenced key authors such as John Locke and Hugo Grotius, who in turn shaped the attitudes of traders initially hesi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2025.
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| Summary: | "John Samuel Harpham shows that, long before the emergence of racial ideologies, English merchants found justification for the Atlantic slave trade in Roman law. That tradition influenced key authors such as John Locke and Hugo Grotius, who in turn shaped the attitudes of traders initially hesitant to profit from human bondage."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages) : maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674301924 (electronic bk.) 9780674301917 0674301919 0674301927 |