The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.

The Origins of American Slavery is a short analysis that shows the complex rationale behind the English establishment of American slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new assessment of a pivotal time in the formation of what was to become the United States offers thought-provoking insights into the English influence on the development of the "peculiar institution."

• Author
• Betty Wood

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 144

• Series
• Critical Issue

• Publisher
• Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780809016082

• Genres
• history, race

• Release date
• 1998