Pirates, merchants, settlers, and slaves : Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic world / Kevin P. McDonald.

9780520958784 (ebook) :

Oakland, Ca : University of California Press, [2015]

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1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

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This study explores a global trade network in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries located on the peripheries of world empires, exposing the ways in which informal networks created by pirates and merchants enabled American colonists to attain their consumer desires for East India goods - including slaves. These slaves functioned both as commodities and labourers in this network, some eventually obtaining their freedom as a result of their participation in this Indo-Atlantic maritime world.

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May 06, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.