num_pages: 144
description: The Hill and Wang Critical Issues concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The Origins of American Slavery is a short analysis that shows the complex rationale behind the English establishment of American slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new assessment of a pivotal time in the formation of what was to become the United States offers thought-provoking insights into the English influence on the development of the "peculiar institution."
language: English
title: The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies
titlecomplete: The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
genres: Nonfiction, Race, American History, History
ratings_count: 91
series: Critical Issue
publisher: Hill and Wang