Slavery and the imagination
learning & unlearning
1. ubiquity of slavery
ancients & moderns
beyond Africa & the Americas
absence of antislavery
2. slavery in the Americas
connections to American colonization
dependence
demography of the Atlantic crossing
4 misconceptions about slavery:
1. the process of enslavement
2. slavery and the price of labor
3. slavery as a single institution
4. slavery dependent on race
Origins of slavery
captives in a just war
slavery & humanity?
absence of moral opposition
the example of Las Casas
early critics
slavery & intellectual context
war & captivity
prevalence of unfreedom
economic underpinnings
providence & inconceivability of secular change
The western European exception
slavery & Christiandom
strangers
Why the Americas?
geography & simultaneity
the quest for commodities
Middle Eastern, Mediterranean & Atlantic examples
Why Africans?
exclusion of Europeans
Natives & captivity
African availability
African slavery & the slave trade
Did the Americas drive the market?
Slavery in the Americas and mainland North America
south to north?
The beginnings of antislavery
The Quakers
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