Black Townsmen Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
Description
This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women illustrating how their choices and actions placed them at the foreground of the development of Atlantic urban slavery and emancipation.
Keywords
HistoryAmericas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social HistoryAfricaUnited StatesModern
2008Book
Author(s)Mariana L. R. Dantas
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781403975768
LanguageEnglish
