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Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 Hardback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Christopher Tomlins

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Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied territories, how they were populated with migrants - free and unfree - to do the work of colonizing, and how the newcomers secured possession. It tells of the new civic lives that seemed possible in new commonwealths, and of the constraints that kept many from enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when - just for a moment - it seemed that freedom might finally be unbound.

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  • Title Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865
  • Author Christopher Tomlins
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 636
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 2010-09-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780521761390 / 0521761395
  • Weight 2.1 lbs (0.95 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 4.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects National characteristics, American, United States - History - Revolution,
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010019216
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.097

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Freedom, as a word, has enjoyed an excellent publicist. It sounds noble, uplifting, almost self-explanatory. One imagines ringing declarations, upright citizens, and a steady march toward liberty beneath a broad moral sky. Christopher Tomlins, quite sensibly, arrives to point out that in colonising English America the reality was rather messier: freedom for some, bondage for others, law everywhere, and labour doing most of the actual lifting.

Freedom Bound – Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 (2010) is not here to offer a comforting myth about liberty blooming naturally in the New World like some particularly self-righteous flower. Instead, it takes the long, hard route through the legal, social and economic machinery by which English America—and later the United States—defined who counted as free, who counted as bound, and who had the power to make that distinction stick. Which is… Read more
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