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John Samuel Harpham

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World

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Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 07 October 2025
Publisher: Harvard University Press

John Samuel Harpham shows that the development of slavery in the English Atlantic world was underpinned by a tradition of ideas rooted in Roman law. This tradition, which explained enslavement as the common fate of war captives, informed attitudes toward Africa and became the basis for the earliest defenses of American slavery.

Weight: 728g
Dimension: 166 x 244 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780674278370

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