Book Talk: Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry. Hosted by the New York Society Library
During the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires. In Bound by Bondage, Nicole Saffold Maskiell argues that slavery was a crucial component to the rise and enduring influence of this emergent aristocracy. Bound by Bondage is a new chapter in the history of early North America.
