Shaping the New World
African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2013
- Category
- Americas, General, Slavery
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442607644
- Publish Date
- Jul 2013
- List Price
- $55.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442605558
- Publish Date
- Jul 2013
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442605572
- Publish Date
- Jul 2013
- List Price
- $20.95
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Description
Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World.
While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies.
Serving as the third book in the UTP/CHA International Themes and Issues Series, Shaping the New World introduces readers to the topic of African slavery in the New World from a comparative perspective, specifically focusing on the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch slave systems.
About the author
Eric Nellis is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He is author of The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor (CSM/University Press of Virginia) and The Long Road to Change: America`s Revolution, 1750-1820 (University of Toronto Press Higher Education, 2007).