Enslaved New World

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).

• 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.

'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