@article{ref1,
title="Social networks and social worlds: eighteenth-century Boston, slavery, and community in the early modern urban Atlantic",
journal="Journal of global slavery",
year="2018",
author="Hardesty, Jared Ross",
volume="3",
number="3",
pages="234-260",
abstract="This essay argues that the &quot;slave community&quot; paradigm obfuscates alternative lived experiences for enslaved men and women, especially those living in the urban areas of the early modern Atlantic world, and uses eighteenth-century Boston as a case study. A bustling Atlantic port city where slaves comprised between ten and fifteen percent of the population, Boston provides an important counterpoint. Slaves were a minority of residents, lived in households with few other people of African descent, worked with laborers from across the socio-economic spectrum, and had near constant interaction with their masters. Moreover, slavery in Boston reached its zenith before the American Revolution, meaning older, pre-revolutionary and early modern notions of social order--hierarchy, deference, and dependence--structured their society and everyday lives. These factors imbricated enslaved Bostonians in the broader society. Boston's slaves inhabited multiple &quot;social worlds&quot; where they fostered a rich tapestry of relations and forms of resistance.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2405-8351",
doi="10.1163/2405836X-00303003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00303003"
}