New England bound
Subtitle: slavery and colonization in early America
By: Wendy Warren
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780871406729
Subjects: Race relations; Slave trade; Slavery; Indian slaves; History
Description: "Based on new evidence, Warren links the growth of the northern colonies to the Atlantic slave trade, demonstrating how New England's economy derived its vitality from the profusion of slave-trading ships coursing through its ports. Warren documents how Indians were systematically sold into slavery in the West Indies and reveals how colonial families like the Winthrops were motivated not only by religious freedom but also by their slave-trading investments. New England Bound punctures the myth of a shining 'City on a Hill,' forcefully demonstrating that the history of American slavery can no longer confine itself to the nineteenth-century South."--Publisher's Web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The cause of her grief; title: A world that does wrong. Beginning ; The key of the Indies ; Unplanting and replanting; title: Likely that of New England. Visible slaves ; Intimate slavery ; The law of the land; title: Backing into modernity. The selling of Adam ; A thousand such fellows.