Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire

Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire
ISBN-10
0300187548
ISBN-13
9780300187540
Category
History
Pages
271
Language
English
Published
2015-01-01
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
Abigail Leslie Swingen

Description

This title explores the connections between the origins of the English empire and unfree labour by exploring how England's imperial designs influenced contemporary politics and debates about labour, population, political economy, and overseas trade. It pays particular attention to how and why slavery and England's participation in the transatlantic slave trade came to be widely accepted as central to the national and imperial interest by contributing to the idea that colonies with slaves were essential for the functioning of the empire.

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