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Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865

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Freedom Bound is in regards to the origins of brand new The usa – a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence at the mainland until the Civil War. This can be a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and a few found. Above all This can be a history of the law that framed all the process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied territories, how they were populated with migrants – free and unfree – to do the work of colonizing, and how the newcomers secured possession. It tells of the new civic lives that appeared conceivable in new commonwealths, and of the constraints that kept many from enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when – just for a moment – it appeared that freedom might after all be unbound.

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