Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Urvashi ChakravartyAlthough early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," slavery was a quintessentially English phenomenon, writes Urvashi Chakravarty. She argues that England laid the conceptual groundwork for racialized slavery as it interrogated the classical inheritances and contemporary contexts for bondage.
Although early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," slavery was a quintessentially English phenomenon, writes Urvashi Chakravarty. She argues that England laid the conceptual groundwork for racialized slavery as it interrogated the classical inheritances and contemporary contexts for bondage.
年:
2022
出版社:
University of Pennsylvania Press
语言:
english
页:
328
ISBN 10:
0812298268
ISBN 13:
9780812298260
文件:
PDF, 19.18 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2022