Black Townsmen : Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
by
M. Dantas
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
ISBN-10
1403975760
ISBN-13
9781403975768
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 24th, 2008
Print length
280 Pages
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This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women illustrating how their choices and actions placed them at the foreground of the development of Atlantic urban slavery and emancipation.
This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women as they struggle with slavery, negotiations of manumission, and efforts to adapt to a life in freedom, ultimately illustrating how their choices and actions placed them at the foreground of the development of Atlantic urban slavery and emancipation.
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