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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England

by Jared Ross Hardesty

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 tradit

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

198

ISBN

9781625344571