Competing Visions of Empire

Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire

Nonfiction, History, Modern, 17th Century, 18th Century, British
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Author: Abigail L. Swingen ISBN: 9780300189445
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: February 17, 2015
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Abigail L. Swingen
ISBN: 9780300189445
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: February 17, 2015
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English
Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England’s original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections between the growth of unfree labor in the English colonies, particularly the use of enslaved Africans, and the development of British imperialism during the early modern period, the author examines the overlapping, often competing agendas of planters, merchants, privateers, colonial officials, and imperial authorities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England’s original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections between the growth of unfree labor in the English colonies, particularly the use of enslaved Africans, and the development of British imperialism during the early modern period, the author examines the overlapping, often competing agendas of planters, merchants, privateers, colonial officials, and imperial authorities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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