Table of Contents

Introduction. The Problem of Slavery in Pre-Plantation America
Chapter 1. The Nature of a Slave: Human Bondage in Early Modern England
Chapter 2. Slaves the World Over: Early English Encounters with Slavery
Chapter 3. Imaginary Allies: Englishmen and Africans in Spain's Atlantic World
Chapter 4. Englishmen Enslaved: The Specter of Slavery in the Mediterranean and Beyond
Chapter 5. "As Cheap as Those Negroes"? Transplanting Slavery in Anglo-America
Chapter 6. Slavery before "Slavery" in Pre-Plantation America
Conclusion

Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

About the Author

Michael Guasco is Professor of History at Davidson College.

Reviews

"With an admirable global perspective and a breathtaking array of sources, Michael Guasco recasts the history of the English experience with slavery."—Alison Games, Georgetown University

"Guasco has done terrific work here, laying a strong foundation for future research. . . . A welcome addition to the literature on American slavery."—American Historical Review

"A stimulating book. . . . Guasco presents a gamut of events and institutions that rendered slavery familiar to the English within and without."—Journal of Southern History