Fictions of consent : slavery, servitude, and free service in early modern England / Urvashi Chakravarty.
| Author/creator |
Chakravarty, Urvashi author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | 1st edition. |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022] |
| Copyright Notice | ̐u2022 |
| Description | ix, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Portion of title | Slavery, servitude, and free service in early modern England |
| Series | Raceb4race : critical race studies of the premodern Raceb4race. ^A1439135 |
| Abstract | "In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons. Despite the persistent fiction that England was innocent of racialized slavery, Chakravarty argues that the ideologies of slavery were seeded in the quotidian spaces of English life and in the everyday contexts of England's service society, from the family to the household, in the theater and, especially, the grammar school classroom, where the legacies of classical slavery and race were inherited and negotiated"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021033982 |
| ISBN | 9780812253658 |
| ISBN | 0812253655 (hardcover) |
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