This carefully collected volume of eight essays and 24 supporting documents allows access to the best and latest scholarship on mainland British North America. This book demonstrates how differences in race, ethnicity, gender, and social status were continuously negotiated throughout England's North American colonies.

Kirsten Fischer teaches in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (2002).

Eric Hinderaker teaches in the Department of History at the University of Utah. He is the author of Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley (1997).