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Virginia 1619 : slavery and freedom in the making of English America /

This book provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Musselwhite, Paul (Editor ), Mancall, Peter C. (Editor ), Horn, James, 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / James Horn and Paul Musselwhite
  • Before 1619 / Peter C. Mancall
  • "The savages of Virginia our project" : the Powhatans in Jacobean political thought / Lauren Working
  • Race, conflict, and exclusion in Ulster, Ireland, and Virginia / Nicholas Canny
  • Virginia slavery in Atlantic context, 1550 to 1650 / Philip D. Morgan
  • Bermuda and the beginnings of Black Anglo-America / Michael J. Jarvis
  • "Poore Soules" : migration, labor, and visions for commonwealth in Virginia / Misha Ewen
  • Private plantation : the political economy of land in early Virginia / Paul Musselwhite
  • "A part of that commonwealth hetherto too much neglected" : Virginia's contested "publick" and the origins of the General Assembly / Alexander B. Haskell
  • The company-commonwealth / Andrew Fitzmaurice
  • "These doubtfull times, between us and the Indians" : Indigenous politics and the Jamestown Colony in 1619 / James D. Rice
  • Brase's case : making slave law as customary law in Virginia's general court, 1619-1625 / Paul D. Halliday
  • Virginia and the Amazonian alternative / Melissa N. Morris
  • From John Smith to Adam Smith : Virginia and the founding conventions of English long-distance settler colonization / Jack P. Greene.