New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

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While many earlier histories of American slavery focus on the southern colonies, Wendy Warren’s award-winning book examines the complicity of New England’s leading families and links the growth of the northern colonies to the slave trade. Fundamentally changing our understanding of just how pervasive enslavement was in the seventeenth century, New England Bound is “the new standard for understanding colonial America.” (paperback, 2016)

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Notable Book of 2016, and winner of The Organization of American Historians’ Merle Curti Award

“A bracing and fearless inquiry into the intricate web of slavery and empire … Ardently argued, and urgently necessary.” – Jill Lepore, author of New York Burning

“[Warren] widens the lens to show that the early New England economy was enmeshed in the seafaring trade that developed between four Atlantic continents for the transport, clothing, and feeding of African captives. The region’s early growth and prosperity, Warren shows, sprang from that tainted commerce…” – The Boston Globe

“Whereas most studies of slavery in the United States concern the antebellum South, this one stakes out less visited territory – the laws and decisions made by the colonists in New England two centuries earlier.” – The New Yorker

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