Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas

Dantas, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-04-24

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349536474

DOI: 10.1057/9780230611115

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 280