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Title

The household war

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Property, personhood, and the domestication of Anglo-American slavery, 1547-1729

Type

  • Text
  • Monograph

Contribution

Subject

  • Slavery--United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 (LCSH)
  • Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc.--Great Britain (LCSH)
  • Slavery--Great Britain--History (LCSH)
  • Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc.--Virginia (LCSH)
  • Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc.--Massachusetts (LCSH)
  • Slavery--Virginia--History (LCSH)
  • Slavery--Massachusetts--History (LCSH)
  • Slavery--Philosophy (LCSH)

Language

Classification

  • DDC: 306.3/6209730903 (Assigner: dlc)
  • LCC: E446 .E536 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

Supplementary content

Summary

"This book shows how the early modern English debate over what slavery was and how it ought to be practiced in the household resulted in the development of two distinct systems of bondage in colonial Massachusetts and Virginia, laying the foundation for a future house divided"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. War, capitalism, and the domestication of slavery, 1547-1729 -- Chapter 2. "Parts and members of the state" : creating slaveries and capitalisms in early Anglo-America, 1607-1642 -- Chapter 3. A "Heynous and Cryinge Sinn" : slavery and domestication in the imperial English civil wars and revolutions, 1642-1660 -- Chapter 4. "A two-fold use" : the human tragedy of the Anglo-American counterrevolution, 1660-1688 -- Chapter 5. A Williamite moment : the problem of domestication in the age of war-slavery, 1689-1729 -- Epilogue. Through war, toward revolution, beyond domestication?

Authorized Access Point

Blanton, John N. The household war

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  • Date: 2026-09-30T17:46:07.432902+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24148438

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  • Date: 2026-09-30
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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