The Origins of American Slavery

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise affordable works on pivotal topics in American history society and politics.The Origins of American Slavery is a short analysis that shows the complex rationale behind the English establishment of American slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new assessment of a pivotal time in the formation of what was to become the United States offers thought-provoking insights into the English influence on the development of the peculiar institution.