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Trouble of the world : slavery and empire in the age of capital

Sell, Zach - 2021

"In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not … only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions … on a global scale, showing how slavery molded the United States as an empire-state while other imperial powers looked to …

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Barbaric traffic : commerce and antislavery in the eighteenth century Atlantic world

Gould, Philip - 2003

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Bristol and the Atlantic trade in the eighteenth century

Morgan, Kenneth - 1993 - 1. publ.

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Indentured migration and the servant trade from London to America, 1618-1718 : "There is great want of servants"

Wareing, John - 2017 - First edition

The key role played by indentured servants in the settlement and development of the English colonies in the West Indies and the North American mainland in the first century of English colonisation has been overshadowed by interest in the much larger later trade in African slaves. 'There is Great...

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From British peasants to colonial American farmers

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The currency of empire : money and power in seventeenth-century English America

Barth, Jonathan - 2021

Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization -- The first decades of English American settlement, 1607- -- Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660- -- Empire in crisis and flux, 1670- -- Showdown in...