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Black Townsmen

Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
By:M. Dantas
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781349536474
eText ISBN:9780230611115
Edition:0
Copyright:2008
Format:Page Fidelity

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This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women illustrating how their choices and actions placed them at the foreground of the development of Atlantic urban slavery and emancipation.