Virginia 1619 :: slavery and freedom in the making of English America /

This book provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racia...

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Weitere Verfasser: Musselwhite, Paul (HerausgeberIn), Mancall, Peter C. (HerausgeberIn), Horn, James, 1953- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:This book provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the product of thoughtless, greedy, or impatient English colonists. Instead, the emergence of stable English Atlantic colonies reflected the deliberate efforts of an array of actors to establish new societies based on their ideas about commonwealth, commerce, and colonialism. Looking back from 2019, we can understand that what happened on the shores of the Chesapeake four hundred years ago was no accident.
Beschreibung:"Although this volume centers on the events of a sweltering summer in the Chesapeake Tidewater, it began life in the mountains of northern New England. It grew out of a conference hosted at Dartmouth College in the spring of 2017 ..."--Acknowledgments page
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469651804
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