This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women illustrating how their choices and actions placed them at the foreground of the development of Atlantic urban slavery and emancipation.

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'Dantas's Black Townsmen is a well-researched book on the enslaved and free population of colour in Baltimore and Sabara in the long eighteenth century, and will be of great comparative use to researchers working on urban African-Americans in the Americas. - Silvia Espelt Bombin, Newcastle University

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MARIANA DANTAS is Assistant Professor of History, Ohio University, USA.

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Book Title: Black Townsmen
Book Subtitle: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
Authors: Mariana L. R. Dantas
Series Title: Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611115
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7576-8Published: 24 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53647-4Published: 24 April 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61111-5Published: 17 March 2008
Series ISSN: 2945-6878
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6886
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 280
Topics: History of the Americas, Social History, Cultural History, African History, US History, Modern History

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