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Fictions of consent : slavery, servitude, and free service in Early Modern England /
Although early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," slavery was a quintessentially English phenomenon, writes Urvashi Chakravarty. She argues that England laid the conceptual groundwork for racialized slavery as it interrogated the classical inheritanc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Raceb4race.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Transcription
- Introduction. "Too Pure an Air for Slaves to Breath In": Slavery "Before" Slaves in Early Modern England
- Chapter 1. Marking Service: Livery, Liberty, and Legal Fictions in Early Modern England
- Chapter 2. "Leaue to Liue More at Libertie": Race, Slavery, and Pedagogy in the Early Modern Schoolroom
- Chapter 3. "Am I Not Consanguineous?": The Foreign Famulus and the Early Modern Household
- Chapter 4. Faithful Covenant Servants and Inbred Enemies: Indenture and Natality in Paradise Lost
- Chapter 5. "Of a Bondslaue I Made Thee My Free Man": Servitude, Manumission, and the Macula Servitutis in The Tempest and Its Early American Afterlife
- Epilogue. Fictions of Consent in the Atlantic World
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments