Freedom Bound ：Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865

Publication subTitle ：Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865

Author： Christopher Tomlins  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9780511784750

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521761390

Subject： K7 Americas History

Keyword： 美洲史

Language： ENG

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Freedom Bound

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Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied territories, how they were populated with migrants - free and unfree - to do the work of colonizing and how the newcomers secured possession. It tells of the new civic lives that seemed possible in new commonwealths and of the constraints that kept many from enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when - just for a moment - it seemed that freedom might finally be unbound.

Chapter

Cover

Half-title

Series-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Tables and Figures

Chapter 1

Appendices to Chapter 1

Figure – Appendices to Chapter 1

Acknowledgments

Freedom Bound

Prologue Beginning: “As much freedome in reason as may be …”

Free …? Bound …?

From the Law of Work to the Work of Law

Awakening from John Smith’s Dream

Part I Manning, Planting, Keeping

1 Manning: “Setteynge many on Worke”

I. Population and Migration: the Currents of Mainland Demography

Massachusetts Bay

The Chesapeake

The Lower South

The Mid-Atlantic

II. Indentured Servitude

IIA. Numbers

IIB. Flows

Conclusion

2 Planting: “Directed and Conducted Thither”

I. Loco-motion

II. Servitude as Regulatory Capacity

III. Natural Subjects and Free Denizens – Calvin’s Case

Conclusion

3 Keeping (i): Discourses of Intrusion

I. The Legalities of Colonizing

II. Terra Nullius?

III. Indigenous Sovereigns?

Conclusion

4 Keeping (ii): English Desires, Designs

I. Roots

II. Labors of Hercules

Virginia, Massachusetts

The First Proprietaries

The Restoration Proprietaries

Conclusion

Part II Poly-Olbion; or The Inside Narrative

5 Packing: New Inhabitants

I. Places of Origin

II. Manorialism

III. Destinations

New England

The Chesapeake

The Delaware Valley

Conclusion

6 Unpacking: Received Wisdoms of Law and Work

I. England

The Ordinance and Statute of Laborers

Locality and Legality: Writing and Administering the Statute of Artifi cers

II. America

New England

The Chesapeake

The Delaware Valley

Conclusion

7 Changing: Localities, Legalities

I. The Chesapeake

II. New England

III. The Delaware Valley

Conclusion

Part III “What, then, is the American, this new man?”

8 Modernizing: Polity, Economy, Patriarchy

I. Re-telling Tales

II. Household and Polis

Smith and Hooker

Filmer and Locke

III. Locke’s Oikos

Interlude

IV. Locke’s Mainland

Political Economy and Household – “Lockean” New England

Political Economy and Household – the “Lockean” Chesapeake

Conclusion

9 Enslaving: Facies Hippocratica

I. Histories of Fury

Points of Departure

Transplants and Timing

II. Slavery is All but Death

Barbados – Seed Crystal

III. Mainland Slavery Regimes: South Carolina

IV. Mainland Slavery Regimes: Virginia

V. Mainland Slavery Regimes: New England and the Mid-Atlantic

New England

The Mid-Atlantic Settlements

Conclusion

10 Ending: “Strange Order of Things!”

I. The Facts of the Matter

II. American Histories

III. Eternal Return

IV. Phantasmagoria

V. Beginning and End

Appendices to Chapter 1

Appendix I European Migration to English Mainland America, 1600–1780, and the Incidence of Indentured Servitude: Estimates and Sources

The Seventeenth Century: Numbers and Sources

The Seventeenth Century: Discussion

The Eighteenth Century: Numbers and Sources

The Eighteenth Century: Discussion

The Eighteenth Century: Incidence of Indentured Servitude

Appendix II Seasoning and General Mortality in the Chesapeake Region: Estimates and Sources

Appendix III Supplementary Estimates

Appendix IV Servants’ Ages

Index

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