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Settlement and Region in British America, 1607-1763

Trevor Burnard

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-05-25

Settlement and Region in British America, 1607–1763 Introduction When the English ventured overseas in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, ...

Seven Years' War, The

Geoffrey Plank

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

The Seven Years’ War Introduction The Seven Years’ War began in 1754 in the upper Ohio River Valley in what is now western Pennsylvania. Britis...

Sex and Sexuality

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Sex and Sexuality Introduction Encounters around the Atlantic world often involved sex, a fact that fascinated and troubled people at the tim...

Ships and Shipping

Kenneth Morgan

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Ships and Shipping Introduction The scattered nature of colonial settlements across three thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean placed ships a...

Slave Owners In The British Atlantic

Nick Draper

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-12-19

Slave Owners in the British Atlantic Introduction The recent historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world has, for entirely understandable ...

Slave Rebellions

James Sidbury

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2013-02-26

Slave Rebellions Introduction The importance and meaning of slave rebellions for our understanding of slavery has changed. During the first ha...

Slave Trade, The Atlantic

David Northrup

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

The Atlantic Slave Trade Introduction The slave trade was one of the earliest and the most capital-intensive forms of Atlantic interaction....

Slavery and Gender

Mieko Nishida

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-06-26

Slavery and Gender Introduction Slavery and gender is a relatively new topic in Atlantic history. Studies of slavery and gender developed some...

Slavery in Africa

E. S. D. Fomin

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-06-29

Slavery in Africa Introduction Slavery is viewed as an ancient and universal institution and thus it can be found in a diversity of forms throu...

Slavery in British America

Trevor Burnard

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-09-20

Slavery in British America Introduction Slavery was the most important institution in colonial British America. Every area of colonial British...

Slavery in British and American Literature

Judie Newman

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2013-03-19

Slavery in British and American Literature Introduction For some literary scholars, all literature that follows the establishment of Atlantic ...

Slavery, Abolition of

Michael Guasco

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Abolition of Slavery Introduction The abolition of slavery in the Atlantic world occurred during the 19th century, but its origins are gene...

Slavery, Atlantic

Matt Childs

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Atlantic Slavery Introduction If historians were forced to name the one institution or historical phenomenon that most decisively fostered ...

Slavery, Native American

Michael Guasco

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-06-29

Native American Slavery Introduction Native American slavery has traditionally been treated by scholars as a secondary matter that is of histor...

Slavery, Public Memory and Heritage of

Ana Lucia Araujo

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-12-19

Public Memory and Heritage of Slavery Introduction The study of public memory and heritage of slavery emerged during the 1980s. In various for...

Slavery, The Origins of

Michael Guasco

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

The Origins of Slavery Introduction Slavery predated European forays into the Atlantic world, but the system that developed during the 16th...

Slavery, Urban

Mariana Dantas

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Urban Slavery Introduction The study of slavery in the Atlantic World has been dominated by scholarship focused on the plantation environment....

Society For The Propagation Of The Gospel In Foreign Parts, The

Travis Glasson

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-12-19

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Introduction The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SP...

South Atlantic

Mariana P. Candido

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-06-29

South Atlantic Introduction The Atlantic south of the equator line was the most active economic hub in the early modern world, connecting Afric...

Sovereignty and the Law

Ken MacMillan

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Sovereignty and the Law Introduction Sovereignty—or to use the Latin term, imperium—refers to the independent power of a monarch or nation ...

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