New England Merchants in Africa
Title | New England Merchants in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Robert Bennett |
Publisher | [Brookline, Mass.] : Boston University Press |
Pages | 628 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Contains primary source documents.
The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century
Title | The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Bailyn |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780674612808 |
Based on thesis--Harvard University. Includes bibliographical references.
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Title | New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Warren |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2016-06-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1631492152 |
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year Winner of the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Award for Social History Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize Finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize "This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." —David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only “mastered that scholarship” but has now rendered it in “an original way, and deepened the story” (New York Times Book Review). While earlier histories of slavery largely confine themselves to the South, Warren’s “panoptical exploration” (Christian Science Monitor) links the growth of the northern colonies to the slave trade and examines the complicity of New England’s leading families, demonstrating how the region’s economy derived its vitality from the slave trading ships coursing through its ports. And even while New England Bound explains the way in which the Atlantic slave trade drove the colonization of New England, it also brings to light, in many cases for the first time ever, the lives of the thousands of reluctant Indian and African slaves who found themselves forced into the project of building that city on a hill. We encounter enslaved Africans working side jobs as con artists, enslaved Indians who protested their banishment to sugar islands, enslaved Africans who set fire to their owners’ homes and goods, and enslaved Africans who saved their owners’ lives. In Warren’s meticulous, compelling, and hard-won recovery of such forgotten lives, the true variety of chattel slavery in the Americas comes to light, and New England Bound becomes the new standard for understanding colonial America.
The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century
Title | The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Bailyn |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1447489144 |
In detail Bailyn here presents the struggle of the merchants to achieve full social recognition as their successes in trade and in such industries as fishing and lumbering offered them avenues to power. Surveying the rise of merchant families, he offers a look in depth of the emergence of a new social group whose interests and changing social position powerfully affected the developing character of American society.
An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895
Title | An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 PDF eBook |
Author | Gwyn Campbell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2005-03-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521839358 |
The first comprehensive economic history of pre-colonial Madagascar, this study examines the island's role from 1750 to 1895 in the context of a burgeoning international economy and the rise of modern European imperialism. This study reveals that the Merina of the Central Highlands attempted to found an island empire and through the exploitation of its human and natural resources build the economic and military might to challenge British and French pretensions in the region. Ultimately, the Merina failed due to imperial forced labour policies and natural disasters, the nefarious consequences of which (disease; depopulation; ethnic enmity) have in traditional histories been imputed external capitalist and French colonial policies.
Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds
Title | Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | Jared Hardesty |
Publisher | Bright Leaf |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781625344564 |
Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of the population, but slavery had become instrumental to the region's economy and had shaped its cultural traditions. This story of slavery in New England has been little told. In this concise yet comprehensive history, Jared Ross Hardesty focuses on the individual stories of enslaved people, bringing their experiences to life. He also explores larger issues such as the importance of slavery to the colonization of the region and to agriculture and industry, New England's deep connections to Caribbean plantation societies, and the significance of emancipation movements in the era of the American Revolution. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of New England.
Final Passages
Title | Final Passages PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory E. O'Malley |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469615347 |
Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807