Freedom bound [electronic resource] : law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865 / Christopher Tomlins.
2010
HD8068 .T66 2010eb
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Freedom bound [electronic resource] : law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865 / Christopher Tomlins.
ISBN
9780511787331 (electronic bk.)
9780521761390
9780521761390
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 617 p.)
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HD8068 .T66 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.0973/0903
Summary
"Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied territories, how they were populated with migrants - free and unfree - to do the work of colonizing, and how the newcomers secured possession. It tells of the new civic lives that seemed possible in new commonwealths, and of the constraints that kept many from enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when - just for a moment - it seemed that freedom might finally be unbound"-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Prologue. Beginning : "as much freedome in reason as may be..."
pt. I. MANNING, PLANTING, KEEPING.
1. Manning : "setteynge many on worke"
2. Planting : "directed and conducted thither"
3. Keeping (i) : discourses of intrusion
4. Keeping (ii) : English desires, designs
pt. II. POLY-OLBION ; OR, THE INSIDE NARRARIVE.
5. Packing : new inhabitants
6. Unpacking : received wisdoms of law and work
7. Changing : localities, legalities
pt. III. "WHAT, THEN, IS THE AMERICAN, THIS NEW MAN?"
8. Modernizing : polity, economy, patriarchy
9. Enslaving : facies hippocratica
10. Ending : "strange order of things!"
pt. I. MANNING, PLANTING, KEEPING.
1. Manning : "setteynge many on worke"
2. Planting : "directed and conducted thither"
3. Keeping (i) : discourses of intrusion
4. Keeping (ii) : English desires, designs
pt. II. POLY-OLBION ; OR, THE INSIDE NARRARIVE.
5. Packing : new inhabitants
6. Unpacking : received wisdoms of law and work
7. Changing : localities, legalities
pt. III. "WHAT, THEN, IS THE AMERICAN, THIS NEW MAN?"
8. Modernizing : polity, economy, patriarchy
9. Enslaving : facies hippocratica
10. Ending : "strange order of things!"