Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals,

This book places banishment in the early Atlantic world in its legal, political and social context.

This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide ra

Winner of the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History Association The success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with its lucrativ

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