The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies - Paperback
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The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
The Origins of American Slavery is a short analysis that shows the complex rationale behind the English establishment of American slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new assessment of a pivotal time in the formation of what was to become the United States offers thought-provoking insights into the English influence on the development of the "peculiar institution."
Betty Wood, a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, is the author of several award-winning articles and two previous books on American slavery.
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