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The early modern Americas

Introduction. Repositioning racial slavery's rise : an Atlantic world perspective / Paul J. Polgar, Marc H. Lerner, and Jesse Cromwell

Chapter 1. African slavers to American settlers : the making of African Americans one hundred years before 1619 / Erika Denise Edwards

Chapter 2. "The unbridled greed of the conquistadors" : the real provisión of 1530 and the legality of native enslavement in the southern Caribbean / Rebecca Anne Goetz

Chapter 3. Monopolizing violence : African slave trading companies and the suppression of native slavery in the Americas / Brett Rushforth

Chapter 4. First enslavements and first emancipations : slavery and capitalism in early colonial Virginia, 1547-1660 / John N. Blanton

Chapter 5. The life and legacy of Francisco Carreño : practicing and protecting freedom between the Canary Islands and New Spain in the late sixteenth century / Chloe L. Ireton

Chapter 6. Warfare, imperial competition, and serial displacement in the seventeenth-century Caribbean / Casey Schmitt

Chapter 7. The wife, the "whore," and the "wench" : colonial women and the development of racial hierarchy in seventeenth-century Barbados / Jenny Shaw

Chapter 8. Of differences and diagnoses : racializing health and framing suffering in the American Atlantic / Rana Hogarth

Chapter 9. Black loyalists in Sierra Leone and Black royalism in the revolutionary Atlantic / James Sidbury.

Slavery > America > History.

Slavery > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.

Racism > America > History.

Racism > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.

America > Race relations > History.

Atlantic Ocean Region > Race relations > History.