{"product_id":"bound-by-bondage-nicole-saffold-maskiell-9781501764240","title":"Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDuring the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires.\u003c\/b\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBound by Bondage\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicole Saffold Maskiell argues that slavery was a crucial component to the rise and enduring influence of this emergent aristocracy. Dynastic families built prestige based on shared notions of mastery, establishing sprawling manorial estates and securing cross-colonial landholdings and trading networks that stretched from the Northeast to the South, the Caribbean, and beyond. The members of this elite class were mayors, governors, senators, judges, and presidents, and they were also some of the largest slaveholders in the North. Aspirations to power and status, grounded in the political economy of human servitude, ameliorated ethnic and religious rivalries, and united once antagonistic Anglo and Dutch families, ensuring that Dutch networks endured throughout the English and then Revolutionary periods.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUsing original research drawn from archives across several continents in multiple languages, Maskiell expertly traces the origin of these private familial empires back to the founding generations of the Northeastern colonies and follows their growth to the eve of the American Revolutionary War. Maskiell reveals a multiracial Early America, where enslaved traders, woodsmen, millers, maids, bakers, and groomsmen developed expansive networks of their own that challenged the power of the elites, helping in escapes, in trade, and in simple camaraderie. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBound by Bondage\u003c\/i\u003e, Maskiell writes a new chapter in the history of early North America and connects developing Northern networks of merit to the invidious institution of slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicole Saffold Maskiell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501764241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501764240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Nicole Saffold Maskiell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44073718219007,"sku":"9781501764240","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_07ea8249-ef42-473e-8dfd-223c42b44f59.jpg?v=1685449490","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bound-by-bondage-nicole-saffold-maskiell-9781501764240","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}