New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America write by Wendy Warren. This book was released on 2016-06-07. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy
Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy write by Strother E. Roberts. This book was released on 2019-06-28. Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the Connecticut River Valley—New England's longest river and largest watershed— Strother Roberts traces the local, regional, and transatlantic markets in colonial commodities that shaped an ecological transformation in one corner of the rapidly globalizing early modern world. Reaching deep into the interior, the Connecticut provided a watery commercial highway for the furs, grain, timber, livestock, and various other commodities that the region exported. Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy shows how the extraction of each commodity had an impact on the New England landscape, creating a new colonial ecology inextricably tied to the broader transatlantic economy beyond its shores. This history refutes two common misconceptions: first, that globalization is a relatively new phenomenon and its power to reshape economies and natural environments has only fully been realized in the modern era and, second, that the Puritan founders of New England were self-sufficient ascetics who sequestered themselves from the corrupting influence of the wider world. Roberts argues, instead, that colonial New England was an integral part of Britain's expanding imperialist commercial economy. Imperial planners envisioned New England as a region able to provide resources to other, more profitable parts of the empire, such as the sugar islands of the Caribbean. Settlers embraced trade as a means to afford the tools they needed to conquer the landscape and to acquire the same luxury commodities popular among the consumer class of Europe. New England's native nations, meanwhile, utilized their access to European trade goods and weapons to secure power and prestige in a region shaken by invading newcomers and the diseases that followed in their wake. These networks of extraction and exchange fundamentally transformed the natural environment of the region, creating a landscape that, by the turn of the nineteenth century, would have been unrecognizable to those living there two centuries earlier.
Early New England Families, 1641-1700
Early New England Families, 1641-1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early New England Families, 1641-1700 write by Alicia Crane Williams. This book was released on 2016. Early New England Families, 1641-1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The New England Primer
The New England Primer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New England Primer write by John Cotton. This book was released on 1885. The New England Primer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A New England Town
A New England Town - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New England Town write by Kenneth A. Lockridge. This book was released on 1970. A New England Town available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
