Enslaved New World

Slavery, Freedom, and the Making of Race in Santo Domingo

AvRichard Lee Turits

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Enslaved New World illuminates sixteenth-century Santo Domingo as the site of the Americas' earliest plantation and slave society and the first place where slavery became limited to people of African descent. Yet Santo Domingo was also home, Turits shows, to widespread continual flight from bondage and an ecology providing escapees with relatively easy refuge. This transformed the colony into a land in which predominantly self-emancipated Black people became the largest population group by the late seventeenth century, 150 years before slavery's abolition. Afterwards, slavery and legal racial hierarchy persisted, but the White elite often remained too poor and weak to overcome resistance and competing constructs of status and color emerged. By focusing on Santo Domingo's understudied African-descended majority population within novel frameworks, Turits opens up new understandings of Dominican history, slavery's racialization, race and racism's historical contingency, and an extraordinarily successful Afro-American trajectory of resistance.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-31
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Afro-Latin America
Antal sidor:375
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009721462

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Richard Lee Turits is a professor of History, Africana Studies, and Latin American Studies at William & Mary. He is the author of Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History; Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean (with Laurent Dubois), and Terreurs de frontière: Le massacre des Haïtiens en République Dominicaine en 1937 (with Lauren Derby).

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'History at its best! Enslaved New World fundamentally re-orients the narrative of slavery, freedom and race-making in the Americas. On every page, Turits offers the reader so much-superb historical writing, rich conceptualization and nuanced theorization. The new rendering of the history of the New World begins here.' Herman Bennett, author of African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic

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Introduction; 1. Slavery's transformation begins: Santo Domingo in the sixteenth century; 2. Becoming a world of Black and White: the Americas' first plantation society; 3. The enslaved strike back: Santo Domingo's long counter-plantation war; 4. Foiling Spanish supremacy: the pursuit of freedom in the century before abolition; 5. 'As if there were no more classes than free or slave': the problem of race in the eighteenth century; Epilogue: Freedom; Index.