Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Transcription ix
4. Introduction. “Too Pure an Air for Slaves to Breath In”: Slavery “Before” Slaves in Early Modern England 1
5. Chapter 1. Marking Service: Livery, Liberty, and Legal Fictions in Early Modern England 14
6. Chapter 2. “Leaue to Liue More at Libertie”: Race, Slavery, and Pedagogy in the Early Modern Schoolroom 45
7. Chapter 3. “Am I Not Consanguineous?”: The Foreign Famulus and the Early Modern Household 89
8. Chapter 4. Faithful Covenant Servants and Inbred Enemies: Indenture and Natality in Paradise Lost 131
9. Chapter 5. “Of a Bondslaue I Made Thee My Free Man”: Servitude, Manumission, and the Macula Servitutis in The Tempest and Its Early American Afterlife 171
10. Epilogue. Fictions of Consent in the Atlantic World 198
11. Notes 213
12. Bibliography 261
13. Index 277
14. Acknowledgments 289