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Freedom bound : law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865 / Christopher Tomlins.

Title: Freedom bound : law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865 / Christopher Tomlins.
Author: Tomlins, Christopher L., 1951-
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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xvi, 617 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America. It is a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War"--
"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"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

Prologue. Beginning : "as much freedome in reason as may be -- " -- pt. I. MANNING, PLANNING, 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 -- 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!"

ISBN

9780521761390
0521761395
9780521137775
0521137772

LCCN

2010019216
3158545

OCLC

503243779
SCSB-12632114

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Harvard Library