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: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403975768

DOI: 10.1057/9780230611115

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 280