Human bondage in the early modern Atlantic world
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Michael Guasco traces the broad spectrum of ways slavery shaped the way Englishmen and Anglo-Americans thought about and interacted with the world even before the rise of plantation-based economies.
Michael Guasco traces the broad spectrum of ways slavery shaped the way Englishmen and Anglo-Americans thought about and interacted with the world even before the rise of plantation-based economies.
As Europeans began to move into the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, first encountering islands and then two continents across the sea, they initiated a process that revolutionized the lives of people everywhere. American foods enriched their diets. Furs, precious metals,…
Introduction: thinking Atlantically -- Atlantic memories -- Atlantic beginnings -- Atlantic people -- Commodities: foods, drugs, and dyes -- Eighteenth-century realities -- Epilogue: the Atlantic.