| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
"Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context. In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow of slavery and racism in the United States has pushed Americans to confront the insidious history of race-based slavery and its aftermath, with 1619-the year that the first recorded persons of African descent arrived in British North America-taking center stage as its starting point. Yet this dialogue has inadvertently narrowed our understanding of slavery, race, and their repercussions in a wider Atlantic World and unintentionally reinforced a conception of American history as exceptional. In contrast, this book showcases the rich results when scholars examine and put into conversation multiple empires, regions, peoples, and cultures to get a more complete view of the rise of racial slavery in the Americas. Painting racial slavery's emergence on a hemispheric canvass, and in one compact volume, provides historical context beyond the 1619 moment for discussions of slavery, racism, antiracism, freedom, and lasting inequalities. In the process, this volume shines new light on these critical topics and illustrates the centrality of racial slavery, and contests over its rise, in nearly every corner of the early modern Atlantic World"-- Provided by publisher. |
