New England Bound, Wendy Warren
New England Bound, Wendy Warren
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New England Bound
Slavery and Colonization in Early America

Author: Wendy Warren

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/06/2016


Synopsis

In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England. While most histories of slavery in early America confine themselves to the Southern colonies and the Caribbean, New England Bound forcefully widens the historical aperture to include the entirety of English North America.

Using original research culled from dozens of archives, Warren conclusively links the growth of the northern colonies to the Atlantic slave trade, showing how seventeenth-century New England's fledgling economy derived its vitality from the profusion of ships that coursed through its ports, passing through on their way to and from the West Indian sugar colonies. What's more, leading New England families like the Winthrops and Pynchons invested heavily in the West Indies, owning both land and human property, the profits of which eventually wended their way back north. That money, New England Bound shows, was the tragic fuel for the colonial wars of removal and replacement of New England Indians that characterized the initial colonization of the region.

About Wendy Warren

Wendy Warren received her PhD in history from Yale University and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. She lives in New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brook on March 10, 2021

Rereading this, as I was unable to recall enough from my last reading and had to pick it up to recall. This is a story of slavery in what we would mostly think of as "The North," back before cotton was king in the South. It describes the system of slavery as it existed in places like Boston, and how......more

Goodreads review by Sue on June 26, 2016

Fascinating book and at the same time frustrating because so little is known of the "little people" whose names are mentioned. I was fortunate in that she writes several pages about a slave of one of my ancestors, Henry Bartholomew. The enslaved man, John, committed suicide and thus warrants attenti......more

Goodreads review by Linda on December 27, 2017

Most Americans know about slavery on southern plantations, and about New England's role in achieving abolition. As school kids, most Americans learned about the horrors of plantation slavery, and were taught to take pride in the wisdom and perseverance of  the Northern states as leaders of the aboli......more

Goodreads review by Laura on September 16, 2018

Huh. This was not exactly what I was expecting. Warren does a brilliant job illustrating how deeply slavery was woven into the economy and culture of colonial New England. We (especially New Englanders like me) often tend to think of New England (and much of the North in general) to be somehow less......more

Goodreads review by Stan on December 11, 2016

Review of: New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, by Wendy Warren by Stan Prager (6-26-16) Early on in New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, a telling story is related that dates back to 1638, not even two decades removed from the Mayflower, of an Englis......more