'Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York' African American History

'Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York' African American HistoryIn Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigating practices of enslavement in New Netherland and then in New York, Mosterman shows that these ways of racialized spatial control held much in common with the southern plantation societies. In the 1620s, Dutch colonial settlers brought slavery to the banks of the Hudson River and founded communities from New

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North American covered bridges were marvels of engineering long before modern civil engineering was invented

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whose tolerance nonetheless did not extend to Africans or Indians

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Drawing on a wide array of published and unpublished sources