PREFACE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Epigraph vi
4. CONTENTS vii
5. PREFACE ix
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. “A Sea of Islands”: Cross-Cultural Trade and Captive Slavery 20
8. Chapter 2. “Betwixt Ye Two Rivers”: Human Trafficking and Colonization 46
9. Chapter 3. “They Took Him to Sea”: Captivity and Violence Before Mid-Century 77
10. Chapter 4. “As He Himself Confessed”: Contested Spaces and Serial Displacement 109
11. Chapter 5. “A Trail Would Be Blazed”: Reform, Commercial Competition, and War 137
12. Chapter 6. “Free as Any Children of Adam”: Warfare, Racialized Vulnerability, and the English Invasion of Jamaica 172
13. Conclusion 204
14. Notes 213
15. Index 259
16. Acknowledgments 271