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

by Jared Ross Hardesty

Book Overview

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 traditions. This story of slavery in New England has been little told.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625344570
• ISBN13: 9781625344571
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Bright Leaf
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher