L’esclavage en milieu urbain : le cas de New York au xviie siècle
The specificity of the urban environment in New York impacted the slave system in the second half of the 17th century. Slaves were isolated in the households, prone to separation and sale but lived in a dense space, which made encounters possible. Moreover, the great variety of tasks they carried ou...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/6221 |
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| Summary: | The specificity of the urban environment in New York impacted the slave system in the second half of the 17th century. Slaves were isolated in the households, prone to separation and sale but lived in a dense space, which made encounters possible. Moreover, the great variety of tasks they carried out gave them much autonomy, which allowed them to benefit from some stolen moments of liberty and to resist their enslavement. The example of the city of New York thus offers us a new picture of urban slavery, a contrasted system in which enslavement did not mean total annihilation of the self. |
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| ISSN: | 1765-2766 |