urban slavery and freedom in the eighteenth-century Americas /
Mariana L.R. Dantas.
1st ed.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
xiv, 280 pages :
maps ;
25 cm.
The Americas in the early modern Atlantic world
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.
Shaping urban environments in eighteenth-century Minas Gerais and Maryland -- The urban slave population in Baltimore and Sabará -- The urban slave labor force -- Manumission practices and the negotiation of labor -- A free urban population and labor force of African origin and descent -- Free Townspeople.
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"An innovative study that compares the experiences of persons of African origin and descent in the towns of Baltimore and Sabara, Black Townsmen reconsiders their relationship to eighteenth-century urban environments in the Americas. Following Africans and their descendants through their struggle with slavery, manumission, and life in freedom, Mariana L. R. Dantas explains how these men and women's efforts and choices helped to define the trajectory of these two towns. The picture that emerges is one in which slaves and their free descendants are in the foreground of Atlantic urban slavery and freedom."--BOOK JACKET.