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This book is a study of how ideas drawn from the English Middle Ages have been used to preserve and withhold freedom in the modern world. Broad in scope, it draws on canonical and ephemeral texts, including chronicles, memoirs, novels, political pamphlets, archival material, and works of history by scholars, colonizers, abolitionists, and Lost Cause apologists. Using three generations of a single family to frame its analysis, it reveals an intellectual genealogy that moves from medieval England to modern Africa, the Caribbean, the plantations of the US, and back again, to the academic disciplines of medieval studies and the very fabric of England's medieval heritage. It argues that England's medieval past has been a source of tenacious bonds—of family, freedom, slavery, nation, and race—and suggests that better understanding how those bonds were formed and resisted will enable full analysis of their legacy.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction. Chosen Pasts
Chapter 1. "Useful Liberty": Genealogies of English Liberty, the Norman Yoke, and the Anglo-Saxons
Chapter 2. "Confined to Complexion": Histories of Unfreedom and Granville Sharp's Anglo-Saxonist Abolitionism
Chapter 3. Temporal Bonds: The Kembles' Anglo-Saxon Family Ties and the Problem of Slavery
Chapter 4. White Possessions and the "Negro Yoke": Proximity, Distance, and Communities of Memory at the Butler Plantations
Afterword. Intimate Histories: Journeys, Names, Ruins
Bibliography
Index
