Virginia 1619
Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America
Edited by Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, James Horn
336 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 4 halftones, 5 maps, 2 tables, notes, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5179-8
Published: June 2019 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5201-6
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Published: April 2019
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
The contributors are Nicholas Canny, Misha Ewen, Andrew Fitzmaurice, Jack P. Greene, Paul D. Halliday, Alexander B. Haskell, James Horn, Michael J. Jarvis, Peter C. Mancall, Philip D. Morgan, Melissa N. Morris, Paul Musselwhite, James D. Rice, and Lauren Working.
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Paul Musselwhite is assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College.
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Peter C. Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and professor of history and anthropology at the University of Southern California.
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James Horn is president of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation (Preservation Virginia) at Historic Jamestowne.
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Reviews
"The contributors to this impressive collection of essays share several common goals: to place the reforms of 1619 within an early modern intellectual context and to define Virginia as a laboratory for the social theories and colonization schemes that arose from such a context."—Virginia Magazine of History & Biography
"Timely, fresh, and engaging. . . . Each chapter is lucid and compelling, reflecting the careful analysis of diverse and difficult archival materials."—H-Net Reviews
"The essays in this volume range from very good to excellent . . . this collection of outstanding essays serves as a reminder that the study of economic and political elites continues to dominate the way we think and write about the past."—The Journal of Southern History
"A rich collection of essays. . . . This book will attract attention for many reasons, not the least of which because, four centuries later, Americans are as interested as ever in grappling with the shadows cast by the institutions that took root in Jamestown in 1619."—Early American Literature
"Timely and insightful, Virginia 1619 brings together influential transatlantic scholars to assess debates around race, gender, and political authority from the colonial British Atlantic. Its authors convincingly demonstrate how both deliberate and haphazard decision making in 1619 Virginia ultimately structured a world of inequality with resonance into the present." —Audrey Horning, College of William & Mary and Queen's University Belfast
"In Virginia 1619, an array of renowned and up-and-coming scholars postulates 1619, when African people first appear in Virginia's records, as pivotal in the history of the colony. Any consideration of seventeenth-century English overseas interests and the development of Anglo-America must reckon with the analyses they offer." —L. H. Roper, State University of New York, New Paltz