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Chapter 4 · Reading ledger

Notes on
British North America

24 citations, collected away from the main text for uninterrupted reading.

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Section 04.01

I. Introduction

  1. National Humanities Center, “The Colonies, 1690–1715,” https://​nationalhumanitiescenter​.org/​pds/​becomingamer/​growth/​text1/​text1read​.htm.[]

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Section 04.02

II. Slavery and the Making of Race

  1. Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South 1670–1717(Yale University Press, 2002), 299.[]

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  2. Philip D. Morgan, “Virginia Slavery in Atlantic Context, 1550 to 1650,” in Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America , ed. Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), 88, 96.[]

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  3. Phillip Curtin estimated that 9 million Africans were carried across the Atlantic. Joseph E. Inikori estimated 15 million, and Patrick Manning estimated 12 million transported with 10.5 million surviving the voyage. See Phillip D. Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (University of Wisconsin Press, 1969); Joseph E. Inikori, “Measuring the Atlantic Slave Trade: An Assessment of Curtin and Anstey,” Journal of Africa 17 (1976): 197–223, https://​doi​.org/​10​.1017/​S0021853700001298; Patrick Manning, “Historical Datasets on Africa and the African Atlantic,” Journal of Comparative Economics 40, no. 4 (2012): 604–7, https://​doi​.org/​10​.1016/​j​.jce​.2012​.06​.001.[]

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  4. Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (London, 1788).[]

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  5. Stephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 63–64.[]

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  6. Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 98.[]

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  7. “Barbados Slave Code (1661–1667),” Slavery, Law, and Power, https://​slaverylawpower​.org/​nhprc​-sample​-documents/​barbados​-slave​-code/.[]

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  8. Christopher Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 (Cambridge University Press, 2010).[]

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  9. Jane Landers, “Slavery in the Lower South,” OAH Magazine of History 17, no. 3 (2003): 23–27, https://​doi​.org/​10​.1093/​maghis/​17​.3​.23.[]

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  10. Daniel Johnson, “‘Profane Language, Horrid Oaths and Imprecations’: Order and the Colonial Soundscape in the American Mid-Atlantic, 1650–1750,” Social History 46, no. 3 (August 2021): 255–77, https://​doi​.org/​10​.1080/​03071022​.2021​.1932286.[]

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Section 04.03

III. Turmoil in Britain

  1. John H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 (Yale University Press, 2006), 148–49.[]

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Section 04.04

IV. New Colonies

  1. Noeleen McIlvenna, A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660–1713 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).[]

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  2. Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion (W. W. Norton, 1974); S. Max Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (Harvard University Press), 2006.[]

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  3. Albert Cook Myers, ed., Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey, and Delaware, 1630–1707 (Scribner, 1912), 260.[]

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  4. It is likely the Germantown Quakers influenced Keith’s pamphlet. See Katharine Gerbner, “Antislavery in Print: The Germantown Protest, the ‘Exhortation,’ and the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Debate on Slavery,” Early American Studies 9, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 552–75, https://​doi​.org/​10​.1353/​eam​.2011​.0025.[]

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Section 04.05

V. Riot, Rebellion, and Revolt

  1. James David Drake, King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England, 1675–1676(University of Massachusetts Press, 1999).[]

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  2. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Harvard University Press, 1993). For more on Tituba, see Elaine G. Breslaw, Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (New York University Press, 1996).[]

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  3. Nathaniel Bacon, “Manifesto (1676),” in The English Literatures of America: 1500–1800 , ed. Myra Jehlen and Michael Warner (Routledge, 1996), 226.[]

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  4. Mary Newton Stanard, The Story of Bacon’s Rebellion (Neale, 1907), 77–78.[]

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  5. Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 166.[]

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  6. Robert Silverberg, The Pueblo Revolt (University of Nebraska Press, 1994), 131.[]

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  7. Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, August 1714–December 1715 (Kraus Reprint, 1928), 168–69.[]

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  8. Steven Craig Harper, Promised Land: Penn’s Holy Experiment, The Walking Purchase, and the Dispossession of Delawares, 1600–1763 (Lehigh University Press, 2006).[]

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