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Schmitt, Casey. "Introduction". The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512828153-004

Schmitt, C. (2025). Introduction. In The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (pp. 1-19). University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512828153-004

Schmitt, C. 2025. Introduction. The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean. University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512828153-004

Schmitt, Casey. "Introduction" In The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, 1-19. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512828153-004

Schmitt C. Introduction. In: The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean. University of Pennsylvania Press; 2025. p.1-19. https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512828153-004

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

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Chapters in this book

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

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