The Household War: Property, Personhood, and the Domestication of Anglo-American Slavery, 1547-1729

＂This book shows how the early modern English debate over what slavery was and how it ought to be practiced in the household resulted in the development of two distinct systems of bondage in colonial Massachusetts and Virginia, laying the foundation for a future house divided＂-- Provided by publisher.

John N. Blanton is Assistant Professor of History at City College of New York