Under a Cloud
Alexander Bevilacqua: How was slavery justified?, 22 October 2026
The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
by John SamuelHarpham.
Harvard, 368 pp., £23.95, October 2025,978 0 674 27837 0 Show More
by John SamuelHarpham.
Harvard, 368 pp., £23.95, October 2025,
“... much effort to explaining how an anti-slavery movement emerged in this period. In his new book, John SamuelHarpham asks not how those who benefited from slavery came to oppose it, but why they accepted it in the first place. His focus is on the English (and, at least implicitly, the Scots), who were latecomers to ... ”
