Novel Constitutions and the Making of Race : A Literary and Legal History of Slavery in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1688–1818

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Sarah Marsh tells a more accurate story about how racial slavery was invented in the western Atlantic--not as an inevitable by-product of colonial expansion, but as a constitutional project that goes back to seventeenth-century England, focusing on the role of ancient constitutionalism and divine right absolutism.