| Description |
xxxiii, 392 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Series |
An expanding world ; v. 16 |
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Expanding world ; v. 16
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| Contents |
The Ideological Context in Europe and the Colonies. 1. The Iberian Roots of American Racist Thought / James H. Sweet. 2. The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia / Alden T. Vaughan -- Coerced Labour in Europe. 3. The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis / Evsey D. Domar. 4. The Old World Background to European Colonial Slavery / Robin Blackburn -- Coerced Labour in the Americas and Africa. 5. The Persistence of Indian Slavery and Encomienda in the Northeast of Colonial Mexico, 1577-1723 / Jose Cuello. 6. "Our Suffering with the Taxco Tribute": Involuntary Mine Labour and Indigenous Society in Central New Spain / Robert S. Haskett. 7. Slave Control and Slave Resistance in Colonial Minas Gerais, 1700-1750 / Julio Pinto Vallejos. 8. From Servants to Slaves: The Transformations of the Chesapeake Labour System / Russell R. Menard |
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9. African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-Trade / Walter Rodney. 10. Slaves and Society in Western Africa, c. 1445-c. 1700 / J. D. Fage. 11. Agricultural Slavery in the Northern Colonies and in Classical Athens: Some Comparisons / Vincent J. Rosivach -- Conditions of Labour, Culture, and Resistance. 12. Black Women's Work and the Evolution of Plantation Society in Virginia / Carole Shammas. 13. From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America / Ira Berlin. 14. Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black Town in Spanish Colonial Florida / Jane Landers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Forced labor -- History.
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Indentured servants -- History.
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Slavery -- History.
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| Author |
Palmer, Colin A., 1944-
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| LC no. |
98074000 |
| ISBN |
0860785157 |
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