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Custom and law: The status of enslaved Africans in seventeenth-century Barbados

2016 (Jerome S. Handler) “Custom and law: The status of enslaved Africans in seventeenth-century Barbados.” Slavery & Abolition 37: 233-255. The island of Barbados provides an ideal case study to explore the beginnings of slavery and definitions of slave status … Continue reading

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