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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Main Author: Anne-Claire Faucquez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2013-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/6221
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description 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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L’esclavage en milieu urbain : le cas de New York au xviie siècle
Transatlantica
Urban slavery
New York
17th century
title L’esclavage en milieu urbain : le cas de New York au xviie siècle
title_full L’esclavage en milieu urbain : le cas de New York au xviie siècle
title_fullStr L’esclavage en milieu urbain : le cas de New York au xviie siècle
title_full_unstemmed L’esclavage en milieu urbain : le cas de New York au xviie siècle
title_short L’esclavage en milieu urbain : le cas de New York au xviie siècle
title_sort l esclavage en milieu urbain le cas de new york au xviie siecle
topic Urban slavery
New York
17th century
url https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/6221
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