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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chakravarty, Urvashi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Colección:Raceb4race.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 inheritances and contemporary contexts for bondage.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 295 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780812298260
0812298268