Freedom bound
Subtitle: law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865
By: Christopher Tomlins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 617
ISBN-13: 9780521761390; 9780521137775
Subjects: History; American National characteristics; Economic conditions; Labor laws and legislation; Social conditions; Labor; Colonization
Description: "Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America. It is a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.

"Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied territories, how they were populated with migrants - free and unfree - to do the work of colonizing, and how the newcomers secured possession. It tells of the new civic lives that seemed possible in new commonwealths, and of the constraints that kept many from enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when - just for a moment - it seemed that freedom might finally be unbound"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Beginning : "as much freedome in reason as may be; title: "; title: pt. I. MANNING, PLANTING, KEEPING. 1. Manning : "setteynge many on worke"; title: 2. Planting : "directed and conducted thither"; title: 3. Keeping (i) : discourses of intrusion; title: 4. Keeping (ii) : English desires, designs; title: pt. II. POLY-OLBION ; OR, THE INSIDE NARRARIVE. 5. Packing : new inhabitants; title: 6. Unpacking : received wisdoms of law and work; title: 7. Changing : localities, legalities; title: pt. III. "WHAT, THEN, IS THE AMERICAN, THIS NEW MAN?". 8. Modernizing : polity, economy, patriarchy; title: 9. Enslaving : facies hippocratica; 10. Ending : "strange order of things!"