{"product_id":"free-soil-in-the-atlantic-world-1","title":"Free Soil in the Atlantic World","description":"\u003cp\u003eFree Soil in the Atlantic World examines the principle that slaves who crossed particular territorial frontiers- from European medieval cities to the Atlantic nation states of the nineteenth century- achieved their freedom. Based upon legislation and judicial cases, each essay considers the legal origins of Free Soil and the context in which it was invoked: medieval England, Toulouse and medieval France, early modern France and the Mediterranean, the Netherlands, eighteenth-century Portugal, nineteenth-century Angola, nineteenth-century Spain and Cuba, and the Brazilian-Paraguay borderlands. On the one hand, Free Soil policies were deployed by weaker polities to attract worker-settlers; however, by the eighteenth century, Free Soil was increasingly invoked by European imperial centres to distinguish colonial regimes based in slavery from the privileges and liberties associated with the metropole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was originally published as a special issue of \u003ci\u003eSlavery and Abolition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54261589147992,"sku":"9781138821224","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138821224_6a530168-07cd-4983-9d75-4973bbbb00c4.jpg?v=1770792317","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/free-soil-in-the-atlantic-world-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}