Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830

by John Wood Sweet

Book Overview

Finalist for the 2004 Frederick Douglass Prize

A century after the Pilgrims' landing, the ongoing interactions of conquered Indians, English settlers, and enslaved Africans in southern New England had produced a closely interwoven, though radically divided, colonial society. In Bodies Politic, John Wood Sweet argues that the coming together of these diverse peoples profoundly shaped the character of colonial New England, the meanings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801873789
• ISBN13: 9780801873782
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 8.9"