Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Contents

C o n t e n t s Introduction. The Problem of Slavery in Pre-Plantation America 1 Chapter 1. The Nature of a Slave: Human Bondage in Early Modern England 11 Chapter 2. Slaves the World Over: Early English Encounters with Slavery 41 Chapter 3. Imaginary Allies: Englishmen and Africans in Spain’s Atlantic World 80 Chapter 4. Englishmen Enslaved: The Specter of Slavery in the Mediterranean and Beyond 121 Chapter 5. “As Cheap as Those Negroes”?: Transplanting Slavery in Anglo-America 155 Chapter 6. Slavery before “Slavery” in Pre-Plantation America 195 Conclusion 227 Notes 235 Index 299 Acknowledgments 313 This page intentionally left blank ...