The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English ColoniesAuthor Contributor(s): Wood, Betty Publisher: Hill and Wang Date: 03 04 1998 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The Origins of American Slavery is a short analysis that shows the complex rationale behind the English establishment of American slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new assessment of a