7 “The Axe Is Laid to the Root”: Freedom against Slavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I
6. 1 Reformation Work 11
7. 2 Colonization and Its Discontents: The English Atlantic before the English Revolution 45
8. 3 “To Engage You All to Rise Up in Your Might”: The Outbreak of the English Revolution 83
9. 4 “Monsters,” “Savages,” and “Turbulent Carriages”: The Revolutionary Atlantic in Motion 120
10. Part II
11. 5 “An Arrow against All Tyrants”: Popular Republicanism and the English Revolution 163
12. 6 “That Crimson Stream of Blood”: The Imperial Turn of the English Revolution 198
13. 7 “The Axe Is Laid to the Root”: Freedom against Slavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic 239
14. Epilogue 277
15. Notes 295
16. Index 353