This 15th anniversary edition has been updated to include new materials and analysis, a review of developments in the field, prospects for new research, and new illustrations.
The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Tells the story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. This book demonstrates that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule.
Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among Native American and Euroamerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and ......
Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp
Out of the Great Dismal Swamp, a huge morass of swampland straddling the Virginia and North Carolina eastern seaboard, there emerged a distinct culture of enslaved insurgency and fugitive subversion. Maroons who fled enslavement and resettled in wilderness spaces utilized the deep interior swamps to establish permanent, multigenerational ......
Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp
Out of the Great Dismal Swamp, a huge morass of swampland straddling the Virginia and North Carolina eastern seaboard, there emerged a distinct culture of enslaved insurgency and fugitive subversion. Maroons who fled enslavement and resettled in wilderness spaces utilized the deep interior swamps to establish permanent, multigenerational ......
Daily Life, Inequality, and Slavery in Roman Homes and Society
Mastering the Body offers an innovative exploration of the intimate, bodily routines that shaped-and were shaped by-Roman society. From kitchens to chamber pots, F. Mira Green uncovers how eating, digesting, and excreting were not just biological necessities but deeply embedded social practices that reinforced hierarchies and power structures in ......
Daily Life, Inequality, and Slavery in Roman Homes and Society
Mastering the Body offers an innovative exploration of the intimate, bodily routines that shaped-and were shaped by-Roman society. From kitchens to chamber pots, F. Mira Green uncovers how eating, digesting, and excreting were not just biological necessities but deeply embedded social practices that reinforced hierarchies and power structures in ......
The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first century Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has ......
The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first century Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has ......
